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SubjectRe: Strange network timeouts w/ 2.6.30.5

----- "Krzysztof Halasa" <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

> Walt Holman <walt@holmansrus.com> writes:
>
> > Would something like passing a mem=xx cmdline on x86_64 be
> sufficient to test this?
>
> I think so, though I admit I don't remember using this personally
> since
> the introduction of e820 RAM mapping support.
> Dmesg will show if the memory is limited. For the swiotlb to
> effectively
> disable no RAM > 0x100000000 may be used.
>
> But this test isn't IMHO terribly important at this point - the
> driver
> makes invalid use of the DMA API and it has to change. The test could
> only explain _how_ exactly does it fail, we already know _why_ it
> does.
> --
> Krzysztof Halasa

Just got a chance to test this for confirmation. When limiting the RAM to 2GB, the patched driver appears to work OK.

-Walt



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