From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:44:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from static-72-72-73-123.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.72.73.123]:44206 "EHLO imap-1.sicortex.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023325AbZCaToP (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:44:15 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap-1.sicortex.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC8BB9E61; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:44:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sicortex.com Received: from imap-1.sicortex.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap-1.sicortex.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VMPyfMIWAtvd; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:44:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.1.104] (gs104.sicortex.com [10.0.1.104]) by imap-1.sicortex.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC3FB9E53; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49D27275.6060006@sicortex.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:49 -0400 From: Peter Watkins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050831) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: colin@realtek.com.tw CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: The impact to change page size to 16k for cache alias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 22220 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: pwatkins@sicortex.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi Colin, When we went to 64K pages we had to get a firmware upgrade for a myrinet card. As I recall it was already OK for 16K pages. For mellanox cards we had to set a .ini parameter, log2_uar_bar_megabytes. Send me a note if you want more details. Other than that, the drivers we tried just worked (qla24xxx, e1000, tg3, sata sil, sil24). --Peter