Re: [Q] What is the significance of the "Out of IOMMU Space" error?

From: David S. Miller
Date: Sat Jun 25 2005 - 23:44:22 EST


From: Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:37:08 -0400

> This error doesn't seem to be mentioned much in this space. Should it
> be taken at face value? Is it something simple like IOMMU should be
> set to a higher value in the HDAMA bios? A kernel bug? Or could it
> actually be bad physical memory or even a bad card?

It could be a DMA mapping leak in some kernel driver.
Or it could be that there is more DMA in flight than
the IOMMU space available can hold.
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