Re: [was Re: Linux 2.6.14 ] Revert "x86-64: Avoid unnecessary double bouncing for swiotlb"

[Andi Kleen]

On Monday 31 October 2005 22:48, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> I agree it is ugly.  But it atleast shows and does what the comment says.
> Is reverting a bug-fix to mask another bug (probably due to a broken bios
> or user not setting the IOMMU in the bios) any cleaner?  Yes it doesn't
> show though ;)

I don't believe the problem is the AMD boxes here.

Anyways, with the dma_ops patch we can probably separate it cleanly
and avoid the problem.

-Andi
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