Re: What's the SB600 64-bit DMA problem?

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George Spelvin wrote:
> Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Q: Does the fact that I'm using the GART IOMMU mean that I'm not really using
>>> using 64-bit DMA at all?
>> Can you turn it off and see what happens?
> 
> I can if I can verify that every other bus-master PCI device in the
> system can do 64-bit DMA.
> 
> Do you know how to check that?  I haven't found a file under /sys or
> /proc that tells me what the DMA masks are of various system
> drivers, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

It doesn't really matter.  The kernel will bounce buffers as
necessary.

-- 
tejun
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