Re: pci_alloc_consistent()

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Leonid" == Leonid Grossman <leonid.grossman@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Leonid> Are there any known issues with pci_alloc_consistent()
Leonid> allocating more than 1MB?  One of our developers seems to
Leonid> recall a thread but we can't find it...

[snip]

Leonid> Is this a known problem? The system is 2-way Itanium, running
Leonid> 2.4.21 kernel.

Leonid,

What type of Itanium box? It's possible what you're seeing is caused
by a bug in the IOMMU code, but we would need to know which one (HP,
SGI or someone else's).

Cheers,
Jes
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