Vasu Varma P V wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any limitation on DMA memory we can allocate using
> kmalloc(size, GFP_DMA)? I am not able to acquire more than
> 14MB of the mem using this on my PCI SMP box with 256MB ram.
> I think there is restriction on ISA boards of 16MB.
> Can we increase it ?
You can allocate a lot more memory for your pci activities.
No problem there. Just drop the "GFP_DMA" and you'll get
up to 1G or so.
You shouldn't use GFP_DMA because PCI cards don't need that.
Only ISA cards needs GFP_DMA because they can't use more
than 16M. So obviously GFP_DMA is limited to
16M because it is really ISA_DMA.
PCI don't need such special tricks, so don't use GFP_DMA!
Your PCI cards is able to DMA into any memory, including
the non-GFP_DMA memory.
> but we have a macro in include/asm-i386/dma.h,
> MAX_DMA_ADDRESS (PAGE_OFFSET+0x1000000).
>
> if i change it to a higher value, i am able to get more dma
> memory. Is there any way i can change this without compiling
> the kernel?
>
No matter what you do, DON'T change that. Yeah, you'll get
a bigger GFP_DMA pool, but that'll break each and every
ISA card that tries to allocate GFP_DMA memory. You
achieve exactly the same effect for your PCI card by ditching
the GFP_DMA parameter, but then you achieve it without breaking
ISA cards.
Helge Hafting
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