PE1800 S-ATA RAID CERC6 with RHEL 3 / 4 ???

[James.Smart@Emulex.Com]

I really hated these patches.  The issue that was causing >90% of the 
problems we encountered was that pci_alloc_consistent was overextending
when no_iommu was set by ignoring the dma masks of the adapter and
forcing the use of the dma map pool when it wasn't necessary. IMHO, fixing
this issue seems like a much better approach than having to make the
dma pool or swiotlb larger.

-- james s

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-scsi-owner at vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-scsi-owner at vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:55 AM
> To: Salyzyn, Mark
> Cc: Kit Gerrits; linux-poweredge at dell.com; linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: PE1800 S-ATA RAID CERC6 with RHEL 3 / 4 ???
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:02:47AM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> > One of the problems with this class (2.4.* based 64 bit) is 
> the Software
> > IOMMU. You may have to boot with 'swiotlb=12288' in order 
> to free enough
> > mapping resources for the card.
> 
> And if you're running RHEL3 Update 5 or higher, the swiotlb no longer
> is mapped into ZONE_DMA space, so you can safely make it larger (as
> Mark describes above) without depleating the 16MB ZONE_DMA.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> Matt Domsch
> Software Architect
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