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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:57:04 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r199192 - head/sys/dev/e1000
Message-ID:  <200912281357.04461.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200911111913.nABJDewR004319@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200911111913.nABJDewR004319@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Wednesday 11 November 2009 2:13:40 pm Jack F Vogel wrote:
> Author: jfv
> Date: Wed Nov 11 19:13:40 2009
> New Revision: 199192
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199192
> 
> Log:
>   With an i386 kernel the igb driver can cause a
>   page fault panic on initialization due to a large
>   number of bounce pages being allocated. This is due
>   to the dma tag requiring page alignment on mbuf mapping.
>   This was removed some time back from the ixgbe driver
>   and is not needed here either.
> 
> Modified:
>   head/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c
> 
> Modified: head/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c
> 
==============================================================================
> --- head/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c	Wed Nov 11 19:00:12 2009	(r199191)
> +++ head/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.c	Wed Nov 11 19:13:40 2009	(r199192)
> @@ -2654,7 +2654,7 @@ igb_dma_malloc(struct adapter *adapter, 
>  	int error;
>  
>  	error = bus_dma_tag_create(bus_get_dma_tag(adapter->dev), /* parent */
> -				IGB_DBA_ALIGN, 0,	/* alignment, bounds */
> +				1, 0,			/* alignment, bounds */
>  				BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR,	/* lowaddr */
>  				BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR,	/* highaddr */
>  				NULL, NULL,		/* filter, filterarg */

em(4) still has EM_DBA_ALIGN for em_dma_alloc(), but it uses '1' for the align 
for RX and TX buffers.  Should this specific tag be changed back to using 
IGB_DBA_ALIGN or should em(4) be changed to use '1' for em_dma_alloc()?

-- 
John Baldwin



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