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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Re: Massive problems with 'PCI-DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU

To: Markus Schuster <ma.schuster@xxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Re: Massive problems with 'PCI-DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for XXX bytes [..]' with 3Ware controller
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:51:11 +0000
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On 29/1/08 22:38, "Markus Schuster" <ma.schuster@xxxxxx> wrote:

>> What kernel are you using?
> 
> I've tried Debians 2.6.18 patched for XEN 3.1.2 myself.
> 
> 
>> Have you tried a vendor Xen kernel for your distro?
> 
> That's the last thing I wanted to try but couldn't find time to reboot the
> affected server to test it out. My intention was not to use a distro
> kernel, as Debians 2.6.18 is patched for XEN 3.0.3. I could stay with my
> current 3.0.4 system and I would be more recent.

Can you try our more up-to-date Linux kernel at:
 http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg

Yes, you have to pull it from mercurial and configure and build it yourself,
I'm afraid. But it would be useful to know whether this is something we have
fixed (knowingly or not) and simply not yet backported to 3.1 branch.

 -- Keir



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