2003-11-06 16:04:45

by Mark Mokryn

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Subject: Highmem SCSI driver

We are trying to test 64-bit PCI DMA for a SCSI driver on a Xeon box,
RH9 2.4.20-8 bigmem kernel, 6GB RAM.
The machine shows 6GB in top, we set highmem_io in the driver, PCI DMA
mask covers 64-bit range, etc.

Of course we're trying to make sure that the system does not create
bounce buffers unnecessarily. On a 64-bit box (AMD64) everything works
as expected. On the Xeon, no matter what we try, we never see I/Os
mapped above 4GB.

Any ideas on how we can drive I/Os mapped above 4GB down to our driver?

Thanks,
-Mark


2003-11-06 17:01:59

by Arjan van de Ven

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Subject: Re: Highmem SCSI driver

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:05, Mark Mokryn wrote:
> We are trying to test 64-bit PCI DMA for a SCSI driver on a Xeon box,
> RH9 2.4.20-8 bigmem kernel, 6GB RAM.
> The machine shows 6GB in top, we set highmem_io in the driver, PCI DMA
> mask covers 64-bit range, etc.

can you give an URL to the driver so that we can see why it breaks ?


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