On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:07 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:43:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > As I said before, it should not be fixed. > > If it's "fixed", we'll run out of iommu space all the time. > > We should stop having stupid requirements instead. > > Hints would be extremely good. Teaching the I/O layers to do > > if (blk_queue_align_64k(queue) == -EGOSTICKYOURHEADINABUCKET) > size /= 2; > > is not very hard - or even an arch helper for > > n = blk_queue_worst_case(65536, 256); Looks like the new iommu stuff will deal with it fine by passing an optional boundary not-to-cross requirement down. Normal devices don't set that and the iommu can still pack. IDE can pass 64K and the iommu will align things that may cross that boundary. That should work out fine. BTW. If we -still- run out of iommu space, do we have sane mechanisms nowadays to break things up and retry ? Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
