Corey Minyard <[email protected]> writes:
> I was looking at a problem with a new system we are trying to get up and
> running. It has a 32-bit only PCI network device, but is a 64-bit
> (x86_64) system. Looking at the code for NETIF_F_HIGHDMA (which, when
> not set on a PCI network device, means that it cannot do 64-bit
> accesses) in net/core/dev.c, it seems wrong to me.
> It is dependent on HIGHMEM, but HIGHMEM has nothing to do with 32/64 bit
> accesses. On 64-bit systems, HIGHMEM is not set, thus the network code
> will pass any address (including those >32bits) to the driver. Plus,
> highmem on 32-bit systems may very well be 32-bit accessible, possibly
> resulting in unecessary copies. AFAICT, the current code will only work
> with i386 and PAE and is sub-optimal.
x86-64 uses the PCI DMA API to handle this. NETIF_F_HIGHDMA is only
a i386 specific hack, mostly to work around the fact that not all
memory might be accessible from the CPU and thus break PIO drivers.
This problem doesn't exist on 64bit.
-Andi
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