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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Work around 82571 completion timout on Pseries	HW
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:31:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179354696.32247.231.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF304A49A.2C1F7634-ON872572DD.0079C647-862572DD.0079EE19@us.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:11 -0500, Wen Xiong wrote:
>  little history, on PCI-X adapters we did not time dma reads being
> returned to the adapter. On PCIe unfortunately the spec says that
> adapters need to time the dma reads the spec is not specific on the
> range but the timers can range from worst case 50 usecs to 10 ms with
> some adapters supporting upto 50ms. The PCIe spec has approved an ECR
> to the PCIe 1.0a spec that will support the ability to disable the
> timer.  To work aroung the adapter doesn't support ECR.  We need the
> driver to disable the timer. 

You do get more than 10ms delay for DMA replies on pSeries ? Ouch...

Ben.



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16  8:53 [PATCH] e1000: Work around 82571 completion timout on Pseries HW Auke Kok
2007-05-16 16:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 22:11   ` Wen Xiong
2007-05-16 22:31     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-17  0:43 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17  9:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 13:10     ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 14:58     ` Wen Xiong
2007-05-17 21:04       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17 21:44         ` wendy xiong
2007-06-23  8:20       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23 17:05         ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-18  0:47 ` Jeff Garzik

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