Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken

Hello. Ravikiran-san.

> > This is an ia64 patch - what point was there in testing it on an x460?
> >
> > Is something missing here?
> 
> x86-64 shares that code with ia64.
> 
> The patch is actually not quite correct - in theory node 0 could be too small 
> to contain the full swiotlb bounce buffers.
> 
> The real fix would be to get rid of the pgdata lists and just walk the 
> node_online_map on bootmem.c. The memory hotplug guys have
> a patch pending for this.

Yeah!
I posted a patch for this problem to linux-mm ML. Could you try it? 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=112791558527522&w=2

2.6.14-rc4-mm1 already has merged it. ;-)

Thanks.

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Yasunori Goto