From: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
zaitcev@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:57:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDDDA01.20403@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031215103142.GA8735@iram.es>
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
Gabriel,
I verified with PCI-E designers,
uncacheable memory relates to snoop/non-snoop, not to buffering in
bridge. Bridge will still buffer writes.
The only way to be sure data has arrived, is to perform read.
Vladimir.
>>>Further, PCI posting: a writeb() / writew() / writel() will not be
>>>flushed immediately to the processor. The CPU and/or PCI bridge may
>>>post (delay/combine) such writes. I do not think this is a desireable
>>>effect, for PCI config register accesses.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Good point. Fixed.
>>
>>
>
>Here I'm somehwat lost. Writes to uncacheable RAM will be in program
>order and never combined. The bridge itself should not post writes to
>config space. So it's a matter of pushing the write to the processor
>bus, a PCI read looks very heavy for this. Isn't there a more
>lightweight solution ?
>
> Regards,
> Gabriel
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-14 20:00 PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-14 20:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-15 10:01 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-15 10:31 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-12-15 12:44 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-15 13:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-15 13:58 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-15 14:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-15 14:44 ` Brian Gerst
2003-12-15 18:40 ` Greg KH
2003-12-15 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-12-15 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-16 10:20 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-16 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 6:30 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-17 6:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 6:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-17 7:24 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-17 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 8:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-17 10:35 ` Martin Mares
2003-12-17 23:06 ` Alan Cox
2003-12-17 10:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-12-17 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-17 16:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-12-17 17:44 ` Dan Hopper
2003-12-17 18:14 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-17 21:44 ` Martin Mares
2003-12-16 17:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-16 17:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-16 17:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-16 22:39 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-17 0:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-16 21:59 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-16 17:45 ` Greg KH
2003-12-16 22:14 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-17 10:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-12-15 15:57 ` Vladimir Kondratiev [this message]
2003-12-15 10:42 ` Martin Mares
2003-12-15 10:07 ` Greg KH
2003-12-15 11:20 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
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2003-12-15 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-12-15 22:48 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-15 23:06 ` Andi Kleen
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2003-12-15 16:38 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
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2003-12-15 17:08 ` Tomas Szepe
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2003-12-15 18:43 ` Keith Owens
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2003-12-15 18:16 ` Greg KH
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2003-12-15 14:58 ` Andi Kleen
2003-12-15 15:40 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
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2003-12-15 4:47 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-12-14 17:28 Vladimir Kondratiev
2003-12-15 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-15 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-15 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-16 4:53 ` Jeff Garzik
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