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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: ak@suse.de
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, grundler@parisc-linux.org,
	James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, axboe@suse.de, suparna@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alex_williamson@hp.com,
	bjorn_helgaas@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:14:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030707.191438.71104854.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030703212415.GA30277@wotan.suse.de>

   From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
   Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 23:24:15 +0200

   But of course it doesn't help much in practice because all the interesting
   block devices support DAC anyways and the IOMMU is disabled for that.
   
Platform dependant.  SAC DMA transfers are faster on sparc64 so
we only allow the device to specify a 32-bit DMA mask successfully.

And actually, I would recommend other platforms that have a IOMMU do
this too (unless there is some other reason not to) since virtual
merging causes less scatter-gather entries to be used in the device
and thus you can stuff more requests into it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-01 16:46 [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:09 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-01 17:28   ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:42     ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-01 19:22       ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-01 19:56       ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:54     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01 19:19 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-01 19:59   ` Alex Williamson
2003-07-01 20:11     ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 20:03   ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 23:01     ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 15:52       ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 22:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-01 23:57 ` [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II Andi Kleen
2003-07-02  0:03   ` David S. Miller
2003-07-02  0:22     ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02  0:21       ` David S. Miller
2003-07-02 16:53       ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 17:19         ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 16:55   ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 17:20     ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 17:37       ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 21:16     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-02 23:56       ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-03 20:26         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-03 21:24           ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-03 22:19             ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08  2:14             ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-07-08 19:34               ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08 19:47                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-08 20:10                   ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08 20:11                   ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08 22:04                 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-08 22:25                   ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08 22:23                     ` David S. Miller
2003-07-09 18:55                       ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-23 11:40                       ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-28 11:15                         ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-28 14:59                           ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30  2:31                           ` Grant Grundler
2003-08-01 21:51                             ` Cliff White
2003-08-01 23:18                               ` reaim now available as osdl-aim-7 - " Cliff White
2003-07-30  4:42                           ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30  4:51                             ` David S. Miller
2003-07-30 13:06                               ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 16:02                               ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 16:36                                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-30 17:18                                   ` James Bottomley
2003-07-30 14:20                             ` James Bottomley
2003-07-23 13:20                       ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-23 15:30                         ` Jens Axboe

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