Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030429AbVKCSuV (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:50:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030430AbVKCSuV (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:50:21 -0500 Received: from wirelesslogix.com ([209.18.121.242]:62732 "EHLO mailrelay.wirelesslogixgroup.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030429AbVKCSuT (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:50:19 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Subject: Re: [was Re: Linux 2.6.14 ] Revert "x86-64: Avoid unnecessary double bouncing for swiotlb" Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:35:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" , Andrew Morton References: <200510291214.34718.ak@suse.de> <20051031214859.GA3721@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20051031214859.GA3721@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511031935.56160.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 18 On Monday 31 October 2005 22:48, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > I agree it is ugly. But it atleast shows and does what the comment says. > Is reverting a bug-fix to mask another bug (probably due to a broken bios > or user not setting the IOMMU in the bios) any cleaner? Yes it doesn't > show though ;) I don't believe the problem is the AMD boxes here. Anyways, with the dma_ops patch we can probably separate it cleanly and avoid the problem. -Andi - 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/