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* Re: [PATCH] pci/uio: enable prefetchable resources mapping
From: Ferruh Yigit @ 2017-10-05  0:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Changpeng Liu, dev
In-Reply-To: <1496530644-8393-1-git-send-email-changpeng.liu@intel.com>

On 6/3/2017 11:57 PM, Changpeng Liu wrote:
> For PCI prefetchable resources, Linux will create a
> write combined file as well, the library will try
> to map resourceX_wc file first, if the file does
> not exist, then it will map resourceX as usual.

Hi Changpeng,

Code part looks OK, but can you please describe more why we should try
write combined resource file first, what is the benefit of using it _wc
file?

Thanks,
ferruh

> 
> Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_uio.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_uio.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_uio.c
> index fa10329..d9fc20a 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_uio.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci_uio.c
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
>  
>  	/* update devname for mmap  */
>  	snprintf(devname, sizeof(devname),
> -			"%s/" PCI_PRI_FMT "/resource%d",
> +			"%s/" PCI_PRI_FMT "/resource%d_wc",
>  			pci_get_sysfs_path(),
>  			loc->domain, loc->bus, loc->devid,
>  			loc->function, res_idx);
> @@ -335,13 +335,22 @@
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * open resource file, to mmap it
> +	 * open prefetchable resource file first, try to mmap it
>  	 */
>  	fd = open(devname, O_RDWR);
>  	if (fd < 0) {
> -		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot open %s: %s\n",
> -				devname, strerror(errno));
> -		goto error;
> +		snprintf(devname, sizeof(devname),
> +				"%s/" PCI_PRI_FMT "/resource%d",
> +				pci_get_sysfs_path(),
> +				loc->domain, loc->bus, loc->devid,
> +				loc->function, res_idx);
> +		/* then try to map resource file */
> +		fd = open(devname, O_RDWR);
> +		if (fd < 0) {
> +			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot open %s: %s\n",
> +					devname, strerror(errno));
> +			goto error;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	/* try mapping somewhere close to the end of hugepages */
> 

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