linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: mtrr cleanup for converting continuous to discrete

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 18:55:37 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Gabriel C" <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Mika Fischer" <mika.fischer@...pnet.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mtrr cleanup for converting continuous to discrete - auto detect

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com> wrote:
>  >> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com> wrote:
>  >>  >> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>  >>  > loop mtrr chunk_size and gran_size from 1M to 2G to find out optimal value.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > so user don't need to add mtrr_chunk_size and mtrr_gran_size,
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > if optimal value is not found, print out all list to help select less optimal
>  >>  >>  > value.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > add mtrr_spare_reg_nr= so user could set 2 instead of 1, if the card need more entries.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  WOW :)
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  With this patch all is working fine , no RAM is lost , X is fast ,
>  >>  >>  so far everything else seems to work fine. \o/
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  I will test on 32bit tomorrow and stress the box later on today to be sure everything works fine.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  There is my dmesg , meminfo , mtrr output with this patch on top x86-latest :
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/
>  >>  >
>  >>  > while look at that you boot log, it seems there is one bug about hole
>  >>  > position. but I look that code, it should already be handled.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Can you send out boot msg and /proc/mtrr when using
>  >>  > disable_mtrr_cleanup command line?
>  >>
>  >>  Sure , there it is :
>  >>
>  >>  http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/dmesg2
>  >>  http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/proc_mtrr2
>  >>
>  >>  I'm still using this version of your patch , didn't got any time to update to v2.
>  >>  If you want me to try v2 tell me , I have some free time in about 30 minutes.
>  >>
>  > original
>  >
>  > reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
>  > reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
>  > reg02: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size=  64MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size=   2MB: uncachable, count=1
>  >
>  > after clean up
>  >
>  > reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg03: base=0xcfe00000 (3326MB), size=   2MB: uncachable, count=1
>  > reg04: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg05: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
>  > reg06: base=0x12c000000 (4800MB), size=  64MB: uncachable, count=1
>  >
>  > so the hole base is not right, it should be at 3318MB instead of 3326MB.
>  > please hold to test v3 ...
>
>  All is still fine here after an quick test ( BTW that version is really chatty :P )

thanks. yeah, but can you remove debug in command line to see if it
still talks too much.

YH
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