From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: acpi based pci gap calculation - v3 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:40:51 +0200 Message-ID: <487D89E3.9070604@linux.intel.com> References: <1216148382.6135.21.camel@alok-dev1> <200807151328.00739.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1216155256.6135.25.camel@alok-dev1> <200807151553.41403.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:41901 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716AbYGPFkw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:40:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807151553.41403.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jesse Barnes Cc: akataria@vmware.com, Ingo Molnar , "Brown, Len" , LKML , linux-acpi , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , TJ Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:54 pm Alok Kataria wrote: >> 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. > > Ok, I stuffed it in my linux-next branch. I'll let it sit there for a day or > so though, just to shake out any build problems etc. in linux-next before > asking Linus to pull the whole lot. For me it seems a little risky to push up that early. I think it would be better to let it sit longer in linux-next for this. After all this is a major change how IO resources are allocated. That is why I didn't pull it into the ACPI release branch. -Andi