Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:30:20 -0700 | From | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <> | Subject | Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken |
| |
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:53:54AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2005 11:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > This is an ia64 patch - what point was there in testing it on an x460? > > > > Is something missing here? > > x86-64 shares that code with ia64. > > The patch is actually not quite correct - in theory node 0 could be too small > to contain the full swiotlb bounce buffers.
Good point. I missed that possibility.
> > The real fix would be to get rid of the pgdata lists and just walk the > node_online_map on bootmem.c. The memory hotplug guys have > a patch pending for this.
Yes, I just saw Yasunori-san's patch. Would that be merged for 2.6.14? 'Cause 2.6.14 is broken as of now for x86_64 boxes with more than 4G ram.
Thanks, Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |