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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [X86] PCI: Use generic cacheline sizing instead of per-vendor tests.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:51:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091015005131.GA19155@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014203139.GA2336@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:31:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

 > I've been carrying a variant of this code in Fedora for a while,
 > that prints debug information.  There are a number of cases where we
 > are currently setting the PCI cacheline size to 32 bytes, when the CPU
 > cacheline size is 64 bytes.  With this patch, we set them both the same.
 
In case anyone is curious, here's the version we carried in Fedora for a while..

	Dave

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/common.c b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
index 2202b62..f371fe8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/common.c
@@ -432,6 +432,22 @@ int __init pcibios_init(void)
 	else if (c->x86 > 6 && c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
 		pci_cache_line_size = 128 >> 2;	/* P4 */
 
+	if (c->x86_clflush_size != (pci_cache_line_size <<2))
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: old code would have set cacheline "
+			"size to %d bytes, but clflush_size = %d\n",
+			pci_cache_line_size << 2,
+			c->x86_clflush_size);
+
+	/* Once we know this logic works, all the above code can be deleted. */
+	if (c->x86_clflush_size > 0) {
+		pci_cache_line_size = c->x86_clflush_size >> 2;
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: pci_cache_line_size set to %d bytes\n",
+			pci_cache_line_size << 2);
+	} else {
+		pci_cache_line_size = 32 >> 2;
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: Unknown cacheline size. Setting to 32 bytes\n");
+	}
+
 	pcibios_resource_survey();
 
 	if (pci_bf_sort >= pci_force_bf)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 20:31 [X86] PCI: Use generic cacheline sizing instead of per-vendor tests Dave Jones
2009-10-14 21:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-10-14 21:37   ` Dave Jones
2009-10-15  0:51 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2009-10-26 20:39 ` Jesse Barnes

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