Re: [PATCH] [29/82] x86_64: Rename IOMMU option, fix help and mark option embedded.

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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Older aacraid hardware cannot address the 3-4GB range where the iommu
> > remaps pages. As the PCI DMA implementation for the x86-64 is flawed and
> > doesn't support any nice way to deal with this via swiotlb instead the
> > driver handles it internally.
> 
> Then you should just force a low bounce pfn < 0xfffffff for the block device - 
> then the block layer  should use GFP_DMA bouncing.

>From a tiny 16MB DMA pool that can't sustain the required load ? Or has that
bit changed.

Alan



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