>>>>> "Sreekanth" == Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Sreekanth, Sreekanth> 2. As per MPI Spec, each set of 8 reply descriptor post Sreekanth> queues must have the same value for the upper 32-bits of Sreekanth> their memory address. So allocated set of eight queues in a Sreekanth> single pool and added a new function is_MSB_are_same() to Sreekanth> check whether higher 32 bits of this pool memory address are Sreekanth> same or not. If this functions returns zero then we are Sreekanth> saving these pools in the bad_reply_post_pool list. then Sreekanth> releasing these pools once we get the required memory pools. Why don't you just set pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() to DMA_BIT_MASK(32) before you allocate the queue entries? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html