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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] by default don't give all memory to dom0

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] by default don't give all memory to dom0
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:45:57 +0100
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> You get a pretty clear BUG() message out if this happens. It actually
> tells you to enable 'swiotlb=force'!  The number of drivers that
> actually use multi-page buffers is really small -- we only fixed that
> case in 2.0 a few weeks ago.

The USB drivers I've worked with tended to use multipage buffers, although 
only the mass storage driver seemed to use really large numbers of pages.

Cheers,
Mark

> I'd rather not waste 64MB of pre-reserved bounce buffers on
> small-memory systems that almost certainly don't need bounce buffers.
>
>   -- Keir
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