Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:31:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:31:48 -0500 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:58049 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:31:37 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15493.29045.798709.577904@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:31:33 -0800 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, sp@scali.com, adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB? In-Reply-To: <20020305.170909.78708394.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3C84E785.1D102FF9@scali.com> <20020305.074722.25911127.davem@redhat.com> <15492.62946.952197.632931@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020305.170909.78708394.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.1.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:09:09 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" said: DaveM> Oh I didn't know you didn't use those changes. No we don't. We discussed it but the feeling was that the swiotlb is overall the better choice (for 2.4.xx). I don't really care about this issue all that much myself, as it affects only platforms that don't have a hardware I/O TLB and use PCI cards that can't address the entire physical address space. DaveM> Your version is still broken then. Ah, classic DaveM. You're obviously entitled to your opinion. --david - 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/