答复: Prefmem of bus 3

[YhLu]

Some devie has two mem regions( non-pref) and it works.

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发送时间: 2004年3月1日 13:07
收件人: Li-Ta Lo
抄送: ron minnich; YhLu; LinuxBIOS
主题: Re: Prefmem of bus 3

Li-Ta Lo  writes:
> I think there is some problem in the resource allocation code so it can 
> not handle devices with 2 prefmem.

Maybe.  I know there was some kind of problem on the opteron, early on but I
forget
what.  The code for all resource types is the same so if we can handle
two resources on a bus of the same type it should not be quite as simple as
that.
> Is the code just picking the "largest" resource ? I am really confused
> by the code in devices.c

No.

The code should be quite simple but it is recursive and highly
abstracted which makes it hard to follow.

The high level overview is the code works in two passes.
The first pass is to determine the size of the resource window needed.
The second pass is to determine the actual resource assignments.

There are many was to assign resources on a bus.  After some
experiences with tight memory situations I implemented a near optimal
solution.  The solution is optimal if all of your resources are a
power of 2 in size.

Basically the code is a loop.  For each iteration the
code finds the largest unassigned resource.  Then the resource
constraints of that resource are considered and padding between
the previous resources and the current resources are inserted if
necessary.  Then we get into the next iteration.

The reason this is optimal if all of your resources are a power of
two in size is because if your previous resource is a larger or equal
power of two no padding will be needed for the current resource.

The situation Yhlu has is below and it is weird.  The resources are
assigned properly but when the are clumped together into a range
register on the bus that value is incorrect.  Which is very weird.

YhLu has:

ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 3
PCI: 03:03.0 10 <- [0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff] prefmem
PCI: 03:03.0 18 <- [0xf0000000 - 0xf3ffffff] prefmem

And then on bus 2:

PCI: 01:02.0 24 <- [0xe0000000 - 0xffffffff] bus 3 prefmem

The bus 3 prefmem should be
PCI: 01:02.0 24 <- [0xe0000000 - 0xf3ffffff] bus 3 prefmem

So it looks like stuck bits or something.

Ollie can you get a boot log from Orange?  Unless they are different types
of infiniband adapters things should be fairly comparable.

Eric