linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: Set pref for mem64 resource of pcie device

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Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:12:07 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <david.ahern@...cle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sparclinux@...r.kernel.org" <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: Set pref for mem64 resource of pcie device

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:47 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> Based on Ben's concerns, I dropped Yinghai's three patches for now:
> 
>   PCI: Add pci_bus_addr_t
>   sparc/PCI: Parse 64-bit host bridge windows from OF
>   PCI: Allow non-prefetchable PCIe BARs in prefetchable windows
> 
> and reverted d63e2e1f3df9 ("sparc/PCI: Clip bridge windows to fit in
> upstream windows") instead.
> 
> I pushed this to my for-linus branch, which I intend to merge for v4.0.
> You can browse it here to see if you agree:

Thanks Bjorn. We can fix Yinghai patch for 4.2, it would be indeed handy
even for us to be able to support putting 64-bit NP BARs in prefetch
windows (For some SR-IOV adapters for example) too, but we need to do it
right.

Cheers,
Ben.


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