Re: [PATCH 5/7] x86: remove the experimental forcesac boot option

2018-05-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 25 May 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote: x86/pci-dma: ... Please > Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying > the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously > gets in the way of dma mapping work. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Rev

[PATCH 5/7] x86: remove the experimental forcesac boot option

2018-05-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Limiting the dma mask to avoid PCI (pre-PCIe) DAC cycles while paying the huge overhead of an IOMMU is rather pointless, and this seriously gets in the way of dma mapping work. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 1 - Documentation/x86/x86_64/boo