Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:02, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Actually, this suggests lowmem starvation due to bounce buffering.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:25:37PM +0100, Per Andreas Buer wrote:
> The kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHIO=y. Do you know if this is a
> DAC960 issue or a chipset issue?

It uses blk_init_queue() and so gets default bouncing behavior of
bouncing everything not in kernel virtualspace; blk_queue_bounce_limit()
would describe the device's actual limits to the system. I don't know
what they are offhand, though, so I can't tell you what to try.


-- wli
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