Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:41:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:41:10 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:9344 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:41:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 03:39:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20020123.033933.41633002.davem@redhat.com> To: riel@conectiva.com.br Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de, alan@redhat.com, akpm@zip.com.au, vherva@niksula.hut.fi Subject: Re: Athlon/AGP issue update From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20020123.022441.21593293.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rik van Riel Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:31:32 -0200 (BRST) This means that when using 4kB pages instead of 4MB pages the agp data is "fenced off" from the other kernel data. Kernel data this explains, thank you. But on the user side, we map these GART-mapped pages into user space with the cacheable bit set. - 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/