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    SubjectRe: ZONE_DMA (was: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans)
    FromAlan Cox <>
    DateThu, 21 Sep 2006 02:03:50 +0100
    Ar Mer, 2006-09-20 am 17:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Christoph Lameter:
    > ZONE_DMA does not have a bright future with IOMMUs and other things 
    > around. None of my system uses ZONE_DMA and I have a variety of them.
    
    IOMMUs don't always help. They IOMMU aperture on AMD64 for example is
    too high to help devices with below 32bit limits.
    
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