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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:52:45 -0700
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r209026 - in head/sys/ia64: ia64 include
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:49:14AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:06:06AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I'm not clear why you even need bounce buffers for RX.  The chip supports 64bit addresses with no boundary or alignment restrictions.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Some controllers have 4G boundary bug so bge(4) restricts dma
> >>>>> address space.
> >>>> 
> >>>> That limitation should be reflected in the boundary attribute of the tag, not the lowaddr/highaddr attributes.
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Yes, but that needed more code. And I don't have these buggy
> >>> controllers so I chose more simple way that would work even though
> >>> it may be inefficient.
> >> 
> >> Do you happen to know if one or both of the hardware I have access to
> >> is the "buggy" hardware?
> >> 
> > 
> > Yes, both devices below can not handle 4GB boundary crossing in DMA
> > state machine.
> 
> Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. If I have a few cycles I'll patch the
> kernel to allow 64-bit DMA addresses with a 4G boundary restriction
> and run that through stress2.
> 

I'll let you know when I have a patch to try on your box. I'm not sure
when that could be done though.

> -- 
> Marcel Moolenaar
> xcllnt@mac.com
> 
> 
> 



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