Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:33 am Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The only problem there is that linux-next doesn't get nearly the sort of
> > testing coverage we need for this kind of change.
>
> Normally I tend to wait for one -mm release, which seems to be tested
> by a reasonable number of people. If it survives that it is good
> to be tested in Linus' tree.
>
> Just stuffing this in in literally the last minute doesn't seem
> like a good idea.

Well it's hardly last minute given that the merge window only opened a couple 
of days ago...

But beyond that, now that I've thought about it a bit more I'm not even sure 
the patch is really correct (though it works on my test machines).  Shouldn't 
we be looking at _PRS not _CRS?  And ideally we should try to find even more 
space, not less.  This patch made one of my machines lose quite a bit of 
space:

...
Allocating PCI resources starting at c0000000 (gap: bf000000:40f00000)
...
ACPI: PCI resources should start at c0000000 (gap: bf000000:31000000)
...

which is a step backwards.  With that in mind, I reverted the patch before 
asking Linus to pull; I'm hopeful we can do better though.  I'd love to never 
see "resource allocation failed" messages anymore.

Thanks,
Jesse