From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org,
John Partridge <johnip@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:24:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161725063.22348.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adafyddcysw.fsf@cisco.com>
Ar Maw, 2006-10-24 am 12:13 -0700, ysgrifennodd Roland Dreier:
> 1) Is this something that should be fixed in the driver? The PCI
> spec allows MMIO cycles to start before an earlier config cycle
> completed, but do we want to expose this fact to drivers? Would
> it be better for ia64 to use some sort of barrier to make sure
> pci_write_config_xxx() is strongly ordered with MMIO?
It is good to be conservative in this area. Some AMD chipsets at least
had ordering problems with some configurations in the K7 era.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-24 19:13 Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads? Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-24 21:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-24 21:51 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 22:12 ` John Partridge
2006-10-24 22:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-24 22:43 ` David Miller
2006-10-25 14:15 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:02 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-31 19:53 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-31 19:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-31 20:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-31 20:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-10-31 20:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-31 22:30 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-01 16:27 ` John Partridge
2006-11-01 16:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-01 17:08 ` John Partridge
2006-11-01 17:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-01 23:04 ` David Miller
2006-11-02 1:08 ` John Partridge
2006-10-31 20:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-24 22:59 ` [openib-general] " Jason Gunthorpe
2006-10-25 14:04 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 23:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-10-24 23:27 ` Jack Steiner
2006-10-25 14:05 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-02 3:05 ` Jeremy Higdon
2006-10-24 21:01 ` [openib-general] " JWM
2006-10-24 21:24 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-24 21:29 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-24 21:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 6:30 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-25 14:11 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-25 14:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-25 17:15 ` [openib-general] " Jason Gunthorpe
2006-10-25 18:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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