[Prism54-devel] Re: PCI fix for some platforms

Margit Schubert-While margitsw at t-online.de
Fri Jul 2 06:44:44 UTC 2004


At 10:52 30.06.2004 +0200, Anriy scribeth:
>Hi,
>i've noticed that on some platforms (noticed on PPC/XScale embedded) PCI 
>cacheline size is not initialized properly and therefore card uses slow 
>"PCI read memory" command instead of optimal "PCI read memory line", which 
>cause serious bendwidth limitations in case of 3+ cards on single PCI bus.
>
>Attached patch that fix this issue - please merge review.

Applied in a different way using set_pci_mwi() in islpci_hotplug.c
It's in CVS and is queued in the CSET at kernel.org for 2.6.7.
It will be in 2.6.7-bk15

Margit




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