From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alok Kataria Subject: Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:54:16 -0700 Message-ID: <1216155256.6135.25.camel@alok-dev1> References: <1216148382.6135.21.camel@alok-dev1> <200807151328.00739.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Reply-To: akataria@vmware.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:37684 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYGOUyn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:54:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807151328.00739.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jesse Barnes Cc: "ak@linux.intel.com" , Ingo Molnar , "Brown, Len" , LKML , linux-acpi , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , TJ On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:28 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:59 am Alok Kataria wrote: > > Hi Andi, > > > > I don't see this patch being applied in any of the tree yet. > > Resending this incase you guys might have missed it. > > I assume this will go through the ACPI tree. > > > > The need for this patch was explained in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121441818818598&w=2 > > > > The v2 patch was discussed in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121433339619175&w=2 > > > > I then sent a incremental patch on top of v2 to fix some conditions and > > handle the change in the e820_search_gap interface. > > > > In this v3 patch, i have folded the incremental fix into the v2 patch. > > Please apply this. > > This should probably go to linux-pci too. > > I wonder if this is stable enough to go into 2.6.27? I have tested it with couple of different BIOS settings and it seems to work as it should. > Most of the PCI bugs we > have at the moment are related to PCI resource allocation failures. My hope > is that finding more space will fix most of them. Assuming this patch > doesn't have any dependencies, I can put it in my linux-next branch. No dependencies, I had added a function e820_search_gap which is used by this patch. This function is already in the mainline tree. Thanks for applying. -- Alok