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Subject: Re: Database indexes and ram
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In message: <20021012135245.A16453@infradead.org>
            Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:57:37PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
: > Linux solved this problem by refusing to do it.  The candidates for DMA
: > transfers include skbufs and buffers from the disk buffer pool, both of
: > which are allocated from the lowest 4GB of physical ram when using PAE
: > mode.
: 
: Umm, Linux _does_ DMA into any memory if the NIC/HBA/whatever supports
: it.

Unless the card is 64bit, it can't DMA past 4G.

Warner

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