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Re: [Xen-devel] Status of "Out of SW-IOMMU space" problem?

To: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Status of "Out of SW-IOMMU space" problem?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:06:18 +0100
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I'd be interested to know if it does. Unfortunately I have my doubts since
the patch fixes a page-boundary straddling issue, and if that were the root
problem it's unlikely to be affected by controller firmware updates.

 -- Keir

On 31/3/08 18:23, "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is the "dma: avoid unnecessarily SWIOTLB bounce buffering" patch likely
> to fix the "Out of SW-IOMMU space" issue with 3ware cards and Xen, or
> any other patches for that matter?
> 
> I know some people have had success updating their 3ware card's firmware
> to latest, but that's not easily achievable for our situation.  So,
> we're stuck on 2.6.16.x for dom0 :(
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris
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