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2005 Apr 13
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swiotlb causing panics on 8gig ia32e systems running Centos 3.4 x86_64
...ght could be
grafted into the kernel itself in such a way that all interested
parties would be
OK with such a patch?
And of course if anyone else has seen this, I would be interested in
their knowledge on the issue.
Just so you know I familiar with this enough to know that ia32e
(nocona/lindhurst 64 bit one off copy of AMD 64 bit processors) does
not contain an IOMMU (unlike the AMD processor) and thus the kernel
developers had to do a serious hack creating this bounce buffer like
thing. Which is all to say I understand why its there, and that on
the ia32e systems I have to live with it, I...