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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik),
	bcrl@redhat.com (Ben LaHaise),
	hiren_mehta@agilent.com ("MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)"),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org')
Subject: Re: (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m
Date: 11 Jul 2001 21:16:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3y9pv8ee5.fsf@lxplus015.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B46FDF1.A38E5BB6@mandrakesoft.com> <E15Ir5R-0005lR-00@the-village.bc.nu> <15175.2003.773317.101601@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: "David S. Miller"'s message of "Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT)"

>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:

David> Alan Cox writes:
>> I see no good way to optimise for 64bit dma on a 32bit box.

David> I'm actually not only talking about DAC device on 32-bit cpus.
David> Just as much, I'm talking about drivers for SAC-only devices
David> even on 64-bit cpus.

David> I took a lot of crap from driver authors when we started
David> pushing the PCI dma stuff on people, because of the dma_addr_t
David> people now had to keep around to unmap the thing later.

David> To a certain extent I agreed with these folks.  I'll be gutting
David> myself if I make everyone eat twice as much space just to add
David> DAC support to the kernel :-)

The overhead is going be negligeble, the overhead of highmem itself is
much worse. Not to mention that today some dma_addr_t's might not be
packed properly in data structure hence they ending up taking 8 bytes
anyway.

Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-28 16:20 (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m achi ne MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
2001-06-28 19:41 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-28 22:01   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:20     ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-28 22:27       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:28       ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02  8:09         ` Jens Axboe
2001-06-28 22:24     ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-28 22:29       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:31         ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-28 22:38           ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:45             ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-28 22:48               ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:48             ` (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m Alan Cox
2001-06-28 22:55             ` (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m achi ne Jes Sorensen
2001-06-29  9:16               ` David S. Miller
2001-06-29  9:56                 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 20:37                   ` David S. Miller
2001-07-05 21:06                     ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-05 23:47                       ` David S. Miller
2001-07-05 23:50                         ` Ben LaHaise
2001-07-06 13:31                         ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-06 23:46                           ` David S. Miller
2001-07-07  3:58                             ` Ben LaHaise
2001-07-07  5:35                               ` David S. Miller
2001-07-07 12:06                                 ` (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m Alan Cox
2001-07-07 12:17                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 12:21                                     ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 13:00                                       ` David S. Miller
2001-07-11 19:16                                         ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2001-07-11 21:54                                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-11 23:17                                             ` David S. Miller
2001-07-11 23:07                                           ` David S. Miller
2001-06-28 22:40           ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02  8:09       ` (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m achi ne Jens Axboe
2001-06-28 21:45 ` David S. Miller

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