Re: One problem in reassign pci bus number?

[Richard Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:42:59PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>no, probe_resource will get from start if space is big enough.
>>>
>>>if not, it will try to extend top.
>>
>> Hmm... for example we still have this
>>               parent[70-160]
>> brother1[70-80]  res[90-150]  brother2[151-160]
>>                   ->child[105-140]
>>
>> if we call probe_resource(res, new_res, 16, par, 1, 0xff,
>> IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED);
>>
>> I think this call is used to allocate a res of size 16 under res.
>> When there is no enough free space, it will expend res, and res->parent.
>>
>> While in this situation, res doesn't have enough free space. so it need
>> to expend itself.
>>
>> In the probe_resource() it tries to extend res on the right side.
>> So even there is enough space between brother1 and res, I think the
>> probe_resource() will not return 0.
>>
>> Do you think my analysis is correct?
>
>it will reduce needed size one by one. so at last it will return
>[91, 104]
Yes, agree. This is the current behavior.

While in this case.
               70-160]
 brother1[70-80]  res[90-150]  brother151-160]
                   ->child

There is free space between 81-89, and 90-104. These two free range add
up to 25, which is more than the required space, 16.

If we have this resource tree. 
          parent[70-180]
 brother1[70-80]  re[90-150]  brothr2[170-180]
                 d[105-140]

There are enough free space between res and brother2.
Then probe_resource will return [141-156] with size 16. 
And also expend res.

So I mean this is the design decision to not count in the free space on
the left? Even there is enough free space?

>
>Yinghai

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