From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Per Andreas Buer <perbu@linpro.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:36:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208213639.GB19856@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1070918737.1260.62.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:02, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Actually, this suggests lowmem starvation due to bounce buffering.
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:25:37PM +0100, Per Andreas Buer wrote:
> The kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHIO=y. Do you know if this is a
> DAC960 issue or a chipset issue?
It uses blk_init_queue() and so gets default bouncing behavior of
bouncing everything not in kernel virtualspace; blk_queue_bounce_limit()
would describe the device's actual limits to the system. I don't know
what they are offhand, though, so I can't tell you what to try.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-08 15:24 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM Per Buer
2003-12-08 15:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 15:54 ` Per Buer
2003-12-08 16:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 20:15 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 20:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 21:01 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 21:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 21:25 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 21:36 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-12-09 10:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-10 13:21 ` Per Buer
2003-12-08 20:40 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-08 15:58 Hank Leininger
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