Re: [PATCH V1] Revert "PCI: tegra194: Enable support for 256 Byte payload"

Bjorn Helgaas
2023-06-08T16:35:28Z

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 03:06:52PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> This reverts commit 4fb8e46c1bc4 ("PCI: tegra194: Enable
> support for 256 Byte payload")
>
> Consider a PCIe hierarchy with a PCIe switch and a device connected
> downstream of the switch that has support for MPS which is the minimum
> in the hierarchy, and root port programmed with an MPS in its DevCtl
> register that is greater than the minimum. In this scenario, the default
> bus configuration of the kernel i.e. "PCIE_BUS_DEFAULT" doesn't
> configure the MPS settings in the hierarchy correctly resulting in the
> device with support for minimum MPS in the hierarchy receiving the TLPs
> of size more than that. Although this can be addresed by appending
> "pci=pcie_bus_safe" to the kernel command line, it doesn't seem to be a
> good idea to always have this commandline argument even for the basic
> functionality to work.
> Reverting commit 4fb8e46c1bc4 ("PCI: tegra194: Enable support for 256
> Byte payload") avoids this requirement and ensures that the basic
> functionality of the devices irrespective of the hierarchy and the MPS of
> the devices in the hierarchy.
> To reap the benefits of having support for higher MPS, optionally, one can
> always append the kernel command line with "pci=pcie_bus_perf".

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s/addresed/addressed/

I guess that without 4fb8e46c1bc4, Linux configured everything with
128 byte MPS, and 4fb8e46c1bc4 was intended as an optimization to
allow 256 byte MPS.

If the Root Port advertises Max_Payload_Size Supported as 256 bytes in
DevCap, and the PCI core doesn't configure MPS=256 when possible, I'd
argue that should be fixed in the PCI core without a driver change
like this.

Bjorn