Hi all,
The usage of NETIF_F_HIGHDMA in drivers/net/* make me think its
purpose is to declare drivers's capability to address RAM above 4GB, OK?
For x86_64 CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not defined, so the function
illegal_highdma() found in net/core/dev.c returns 0 because
x86_64 has IOMMU mapping all RAM.
For x86_32 CONFIG_HIGHMEM is defined as
(CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G || CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G)
While CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G insures RAM is bellow 4GB some checks
are unnecessarily done.
Should we have CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G in illegal_highdma()
instead of CONFIG_HIGHMEM? If so should I post a patch?
Regards.
Marin Mitov
P.S. This is a resend, due to recent problems with http://lkml.org/