Re: ZONE_DMA (was: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux