From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not available
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:36:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091019133618.GA12359@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910172148.36267.thomas.schlichter@web.de>
> X.org uses libpciaccess which tries to mmap with write combining enabled via
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/resource0_wc. Currently, when PAT is not enabled, we
> fall back to uncached mmap. Then libpciaccess thinks it succeeded mapping
> with write combining anabled and does not set up suited MTRR entries. ;-(
I am not familiar with libpciaccess, but I was wondering why that library
cannot realize it failed in its endeavour and use other means to accomplish
its goals?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 7:34 [RFC Patch] use MTRR for write combining if PAT is not available Jan Beulich
2009-10-13 21:29 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-14 8:13 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-14 19:14 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-15 7:48 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-17 19:48 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-19 9:16 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-19 13:44 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-19 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-19 13:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-22 14:41 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-22 14:27 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-22 12:08 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-22 12:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-22 13:26 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-22 13:35 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-21 14:38 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-21 15:14 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-21 13:45 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-21 14:11 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-21 17:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-21 20:01 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-22 9:53 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-22 15:34 ` Eric Anholt
2009-10-22 21:47 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-22 23:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-10-23 0:11 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-23 1:53 ` Eric Anholt
2009-10-23 4:31 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-10-23 4:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-23 7:24 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-23 14:24 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-23 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-23 4:33 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-19 15:10 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-19 15:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-19 15:07 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-19 14:59 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-19 15:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-19 21:49 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-20 20:35 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-20 21:59 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-10-21 11:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-19 14:47 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-20 19:54 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-21 11:57 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] <200910122032.52168.thomas.schlichter@web.de>
2009-10-12 19:16 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2009-10-12 19:45 ` Thomas Schlichter
[not found] ` <1255378684.2063.5.camel@gaiman.anholt.net>
2009-10-13 21:05 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-10 1:22 Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-10 4:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-10 8:31 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-10 15:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-10 17:50 ` Roland Dreier
2009-10-11 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-11 9:56 ` Thomas Schlichter
2009-10-11 18:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-10-11 18:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-11 20:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-10-12 18:09 ` Robert Hancock
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