Re: SATA resume slowness, e1000 MSI warning

Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-11T18:29:16Z

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

>> Rumor has it that some pci devices can't tolerate < 32bit accesses.
>> Although I have never met one.
>
> hopefully not bridge devices?
>
>> The two factors together suggest that
>> for generic code it probably makes sense to operate on 32bit
>> quantities, and just to ignore the read-only portion.
>
> The code for regular devices seems to use 16-bit accesses, so
> I think it's best to stay consistent. Or do you want to change this too?

If we are stomping rare probabilities we might as well change that too.
The code to save pci-x state is relatively recent. So it probably just
hasn't met a problem device yet (assuming they exist).

Eric