From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [X86] PCI: Use generic cacheline sizing instead of per-vendor tests.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:51:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091015005131.GA19155@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014203139.GA2336@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:31:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've been carrying a variant of this code in Fedora for a while,
> that prints debug information. There are a number of cases where we
> are currently setting the PCI cacheline size to 32 bytes, when the CPU
> cacheline size is 64 bytes. With this patch, we set them both the same.
In case anyone is curious, here's the version we carried in Fedora for a while..
Dave
diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/common.c b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
index 2202b62..f371fe8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
@@ -432,6 +432,22 @@ int __init pcibios_init(void)
else if (c->x86 > 6 && c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
pci_cache_line_size = 128 >> 2; /* P4 */
+ if (c->x86_clflush_size != (pci_cache_line_size <<2))
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: old code would have set cacheline "
+ "size to %d bytes, but clflush_size = %d\n",
+ pci_cache_line_size << 2,
+ c->x86_clflush_size);
+
+ /* Once we know this logic works, all the above code can be deleted. */
+ if (c->x86_clflush_size > 0) {
+ pci_cache_line_size = c->x86_clflush_size >> 2;
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to %d bytes\n",
+ pci_cache_line_size << 2);
+ } else {
+ pci_cache_line_size = 32 >> 2;
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: Unknown cacheline size. Setting to 32 bytes\n");
+ }
+
pcibios_resource_survey();
if (pci_bf_sort >= pci_force_bf)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-14 20:31 [X86] PCI: Use generic cacheline sizing instead of per-vendor tests Dave Jones
2009-10-14 21:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-10-14 21:37 ` Dave Jones
2009-10-15 0:51 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2009-10-26 20:39 ` Jesse Barnes
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