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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] pciehp: add support for bridge resource reallocation
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:34:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100117093418.6d545b43@jbarnes-piketon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263683671.29907.47.camel@dc7800.home>

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:14:31 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 01:34 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On 01/15/2010 08:59 PM, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>:
> > >> From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > >>
> > >> With this patch, pciehp driver try to clear PCI bridge resources
> > >> to parent bridge (root port or switch downstream port) of the
> > >> slot
> > >>
> > >> so we can shrink pci bridge resource for those port
> > >>
> > >> This feature is enabled when 'pciehp_realloc' option is
> > >> specified.
> > >>
> > >> -v2: make it could be appiled after Yinghai patchset that touch
> > >> pci bridge resource also remove poweron check, because
> > >> pci_bridge_release_res will check child at first
> > > 
> > > Same comment as my earlier patch. Why not just make this the
> > > default behavior, instead of introducing yet another command line
> > > parameter for users to guess at?
> > 
> > it will break Eric's setup/
> 
> I think this is a clue that we don't understand the problem well
> enough yet.
> 
> I'm opposed to adding kernel parameters for this sort of thing.  It is
> unreasonable to expect users to figure out whether they need to use
> this parameter or not.
> 
> Special-case switches like this make it much harder to maintain the
> code in the future.

Agreed.  Yinghai, what's wrong in the new reassignment code that
causes Eric's setup to break?  Can we just fix that instead and enable
reallocation by default?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-17 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-16  2:41 [PATCH 00/11] pci: update pci bridge resources Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 01/11] pci: add pci_bridge_release_unused_res and pci_bus_release_unused_bridge_res Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  3:57   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16 10:10     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 02/11] pci: add failed_list to record failed one for pci_bus_assign_resources Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:05   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] pci: reject mmio range start from 0 on pci_bridge read Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:20   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 04/11] pci: don't shrink bridge resources Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 05/11] pci: update bridge res to get more big range in pci assign unssign Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:38   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 06/11] pci: introduce pci_assign_unassigned_bridge_resources Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:47   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 07/11] pci: pciehp clean flow in pciehp_configure_device Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 08/11] pci: pciehp second try to get big range for pcie devices Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:52   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:41 ` [PATCH 09/11] pci: pci_bridge_release_res Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:57   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  2:42 ` [PATCH 10/11] pciehp: add support for bridge resource reallocation Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  4:59   ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-16  5:22     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  9:34     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16 23:14       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-01-17 17:34         ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2010-01-17 22:35           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16  2:42 ` [PATCH 11/11] pci: set PCI_PREF_RANGE_TYPE_64 in pci_bridge_check_ranges Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16 11:07 [PATCH 00/11] pci: update pci bridge resources Yinghai Lu
2010-01-16 11:07 ` [PATCH 10/11] pciehp: add support for bridge resource reallocation Yinghai Lu

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