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    SubjectRe: [discuss] Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken


    On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
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    > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:32:45PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
    >
    > > > and would like to be able to run 2.6.14 on them when it
    > > > comes out...
    > >
    > > So you're saying you tested it and it doesn't work?
    >
    > Not quite; I'm saying that form the description up-thread it sounds
    > like there's a good chance it won't. Jon Mason (CC'd) has access to
    > such a machine. Jon, can you please try the latest hg tree with and
    > without the patch and see how it fares?

    NOTE! Even if the machine has 4GB or more of memory, it's entirely likely
    that the quick "use NODE(0)" hack will work fine.

    Why? Because the bootmem memory should still be allocated low-to-high by
    default, which means that as logn as NODE(0) has _enough_ memory in the
    DMA range, we should be ok.

    So I _think_ the simple one-liner NODE(0) patch is sufficient, and should
    work (and is a lot more acceptable for 2.6.14 than switching the node
    ordering around yet again, or doing bigger surgery on the bootmem code).

    So the only thing that worried me (and made me ask whether there might be
    machines where it doesn't work) is if some machines might have their high
    memory (or no memory at all) on NODE(0). It does sound unlikely, but I
    simple don't know what kind of strange NUMA configs there are out there.

    And I'm definitely only interested in machines that are out there, not
    some theoretical issues.

    Linus
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