From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966820Ab0B0MEr (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:04:47 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48850 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966434Ab0B0MEp (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:04:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:05:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100227.040502.182574085.davem@davemloft.net> To: bzolnier@gmail.com Cc: hancockrwd@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fix problems with NETIF_F_HIGHDMA in networking drivers From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <201002271259.31596.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <51f3faa71002261908y7cfa62eeicb3e56d5c920887a@mail.gmail.com> <20100227.015350.71138134.davem@davemloft.net> <201002271259.31596.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:59:31 +0100 > Having IOMMU (even if it is only a software one, i.e. this would > mean swiotlb for x86-32/highmem) always in place would simplify > things greatly.. I agree, things would be a lot simpler.