[Xen-users] Re: calculating the needed swiotlb in dom0

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Subject:	[Xen-users] Re: calculating the needed swiotlb in dom0
From:	"Christopher Isip" <cmisip@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:13 -0400
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Christopher Isip <cmisip@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just found out that setting swiotlb=128 in dom0 grub.conf allowed me to run my mythtv domU with additonal options to ivtv:
in /etc/modprobe.d/options
options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=8

Setting this to any higher value causes a kernel panic. I want to be able to specify
options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_vbi_buffers=8

How much swiotlb do I need? Is there a way to figure this out or is it just trial and error.

Thanks
Chris

After a bunch of trials, I managed to get mythtv to boot without SW-IOMMU errors and without kernel panic with the ivtv options set at " options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_vbi_buffers=8" . I had to specify on the kernel line in dom0's grub.conf : swiotlb=256 and then in the myth domU's grub.conf : swiotlb=128,force.

It would probably work with the dom0 grub swiotlb set at 128 only although I haven't tried that yet.

Hopefully, this will get rid of a bunch of ivtv buffer errors in dmesg.

Thanks
Chris

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