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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, gregkh <greg@kroah.com>,
	David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	linux-driver@qlogic.com, PCI <linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: qla_wxyz pci_set_mwi question
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:43:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176432224.5764.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461EEDAA.7090503@oracle.com>


> Willy was referring to this from include/asm-powerpc/pci.h:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> 
> /*
>  * We want to avoid touching the cacheline size or MWI bit.
>  * pSeries firmware sets the cacheline size (which is not the cpu cacheline
>  * size in all cases) and hardware treats MWI the same as memory write.
>  */
> #define PCI_DISABLE_MWI
> 
> 
> which makes pci_set_mwi() do nothing other than return 0;

Interesting... I think I missed that we had that bit for some time :-)

Well, I suppose that on pSeries and probably pmac too, the firmware will
set the MWI bit for us anyway, but that's a bit dodgy to apply that to
all ppc64... they aren't all pSeries.

I'll have to look into that again one of these days.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20070412172038.GG10124@andrew-vasquezs-computer.local>
     [not found]   ` <20070412185347.GL26692@parisc-linux.org>
     [not found]     ` <20070412193713.GB14510@andrew-vasquezs-computer.local>
2007-04-12 20:04       ` qla_wxyz pci_set_mwi question Matthew Wilcox
2007-04-13  2:34         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-13  2:40           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-13  2:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-03 17:44         ` Andrew Vasquez

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