Andi Kleen wrote:

> tg3s never use the IOMMU on AMD systems with production kernels
> because they have a suitably large DMA mask. IOMMU is only used
> there to remap memory that doesn't fit a device's DMA mask.
> There is a debugging mode to force iommu always, but it is not used 
> unless you configure it specially.

We actually have one chip that uses a 32-bit mask, and some that use
a 40-bit mask.  But you're right, I don't know for a fact whether it
was IOMMU or not.  The corruption happened on 64-bit chunks and seemed
to have gone away after upgrading to the latest kernel, according to
the user.


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