> This patch addresses a problem on SN Altix systems with < 4GB, where > device drivers using the dma_get_required_mask() API would be told > to use 32 bit DMA, when 64 bit is more efficient. Even if someone did configure an Altix with < 4GB (which seems a very unlikely occurance) all of that 4G would be located above 4GB (lowest physical address on Altix is something like 384 TB, isn't it?) Did we really make some dma mask decisions based on the amount of memory rather than its location? If we do, then perhaps we should fix this in a generic place, not in sn2 specific code. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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