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Message-ID: <20161121131316.GF3917@dell>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:13:16 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: intel-lpss: Try to enable
Memory-Write-Invalidate
On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Enable MWI mechanism if PCI bus master supports it.
>
> It might be potential benefit in some cases. Documentation [1] says that
> standard Memory Write might supply more current data than in the CPU modified
> cache line and "trashing a line in the cache may trash some data that is more
> current that in the memory line". This allows to avoid potential retries and
> other performance degradation issues on the bus.
>
> [1] PCI System Architecture, 4th edition, ISBN: 0-201-30974-2, pp.117-119.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> In v2:
> - extend commit message
> drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thanks.
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c b/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c
> index 50e78db..4756153 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel-lpss-pci.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static int intel_lpss_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>
> /* Probably it is enough to set this for iDMA capable devices only */
> pci_set_master(pdev);
> + pci_try_set_mwi(pdev);
>
> ret = intel_lpss_probe(&pdev->dev, info);
> if (ret)
--
Lee Jones
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