linux-kernel - Re: acpi based pci gap calculation

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Message-ID: <487D89E3.9070604@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:40:51 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
CC:	akataria@...are.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	TJ <linux@...orld.net>
Subject: Re: acpi based pci gap calculation  - v3

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:54 pm Alok Kataria wrote:
>> I have tested it with couple of different BIOS settings and it seems to
>> work as it should.
>>
>>> Most of the PCI bugs we
>>> have at the moment are related to PCI resource allocation failures.  My
>>> hope is that finding more space will fix most of them.  Assuming this
>>> patch doesn't have any dependencies, I can put it in my linux-next
>>> branch.
>> No dependencies, I had added a function e820_search_gap which is used by
>> this patch. This function is already in the mainline tree.
>> Thanks for applying.
> 
> Ok, I stuffed it in my linux-next branch.  I'll let it sit there for a day or 
> so though, just to shake out any build problems etc. in linux-next before 
> asking Linus to pull the whole lot.

For me it seems a little risky to push up that early. I think it would 
be better to let it sit longer in linux-next for this. After all this is 
a major change how IO resources are allocated. That is why I didn't pull
it into the ACPI release branch.

-Andi

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