On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 01:43:02PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 06:35:55PM +1300, Alexey Korolev wrote:
All devices behind a bridge need to have all their regions consecutive and not overlapping with all the normal memory ranges. Since prefetchable memory is described by one record, we must avoid the situations when 32bit and 64bit prefetchable regions are present within one secondary bus.
How do we avoid this? Assume we have two devices: a 32 bit and a 64 bit one, behind a bridge. There are two main things we can do:
- Make the 64 bit device only use the low 32 bit
- Put the 32 bit one in the non-prefetcheable range
I would vote for option 1. Supporting option 2 seems complex and it would only help the case where there is a large 64bit prefmem bar (that can't reliably fit in low memory) behind a bridge that supports 64bit prefmem bars that also has a small 32bit prefmem bar (which can reliably fit in low memory) behind it. This condition seems too unlikely to be worth supporting the additional complexity.
-Kevin