From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The iscsi_sfnet driver does not handle high mem becuase its kmap code is broken (it does a loop with multiple kmap without kunmapping). There is no HW limitation like with some real HW cards. For ia64 though, high mem is set but the kernel memory is mapped. Since the driver does not support high mem only becuase it needs to touch the buffers and to do so it will need to use kmap if the mem is not mapped for ia64 we incorrectly tell the block and scsi layer we need bounce buffers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup iscsi on ia64 2. run IO to iscsi devices and see bounce buffers being used 3. Expected Results: iscsi driver should not have used bounce buffers Additional info:
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