Re: [patch 0/4] 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 - r8169 queue

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:36:04 +0200
Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a few (hopefully) harmless things in the local queue that I'd
> appreciate to go mainline before the second round of r8169 changes.

Do you have any plans to convert it to use DAC?  

I feel a bit uncomfortable with using the IOMMU on x86-64 for gigabit
ethernet because it would be very easy to overflow it at these bandwidths. 
DAC would be much safer.

-Andi