From: Ross Biro <rossb@google.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:47:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4253DA4F.2020707@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4252FAE6.8080107@osdl.org>
Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
>
> Is this related (or could it be -- or should it be) at all to the
> current discussion on the linux-pci mailing list
> linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz) about "PCI Error Recovery
> API Proposal" ?
I'm not familiar with the proposal, but this is not related to error
recovery since master aborts are a way of life on the PCI bus and things
just need to deal. The only question is how.
>
>> the master. This can only happen when the system is heavily loaded.
>
>
> or a PCI device isn't playing nicely?
Yes, but at least then you could blame the device in that case.
[ style and grammar comments noted ]
One thing I did fail to mention in my original post is that all of this
could be done by rc scripts from user space, but that seems unclean to me.
Ross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 19:33 [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode Ross Biro
2005-04-05 20:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-06 12:47 ` Ross Biro [this message]
2005-04-06 20:44 ` Daniel Egger
2005-04-10 13:29 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <8783be66050412075218b2b0b0@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-13 18:37 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-13 23:00 ` Ross Biro
2005-04-13 23:28 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-14 17:25 ` Ross Biro
2005-04-14 17:34 ` Tim Hockin
2005-04-14 18:02 ` Andi Kleen
2005-04-14 18:33 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-14 19:14 ` Daniel Egger
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