Re: [PATCH] Intel x86-64 support merge

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On 20 Feb 2004 02:48:06 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

  Jeff> I doubt Win64 bounces for 64-bit PCI hardware, but who knows...

  Jes> Just a shame they don't seem to care about performance and allowing
  Jes> one to issue SAC cycles when possible.

Careful.  You're assuming that the I/O MMU translation is free.
Depending on many details, that may or may not be the case.

The timing couldn't have been better:

 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=107732581008944

  Jes> Oh well, guess one just has to buy a real computer.

That's always a good idea.

	--david
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