On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:01:36AM +0000, Yijing Wang wrote: > Document PCIE BUS MPS parameters pcie_bus_tune_off, pcie_bus_safe, > pcie_bus_peer2peer, pcie_bus_perf into Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. > These parameters were introduced by Jon Mason <ma...@myri.com> at > commit 5f39e6705 and commit b03e7495a8. Document these into > kernel-parameters.txt help users to understand and use the parameters. > > Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyij...@huawei.com> > --- > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > index 363e348..4dfa8d2 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -2227,6 +2227,19 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be > entirely omitted. > This sorting is done to get a device > order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. > nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. > + pcie_bus_tune_off [X86] Disable PCI-E MPS turning and > using > + the BIOS configured MPS defaults. > + pcie_bus_safe [X86] Use the smallest common denominator MPS > + of the entire tree below a root complex for > every device > + on that fabric. Can avoid inconsistent mps > problem caused > + by hotplug. > + pcie_bus_perf [X86] Configure pcie device MPS to the largest > + allowable MPS based on its parent bus.Improve > performance > + as much as possible. > + pcie_bus_peer2peer [X86] Make the system wide MPS the > smallest > + possible value (128B).This configuration could > prevent it > + from working by having the MPS on one root port > different > + than the MPS on another. > cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is > reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. > The default value is 256 bytes. > I was searching for documentation on this the other day.
It's not just X86 that use these options, PowerPC and Tile also use them (grep for users of pcie_bus_configure_settings). I've also noticed a call to it from hotplug as well... In addition these options also have an effect on MRRS - I've not figured out what effect they have, but you can look in drivers/pci/probe.c at the pcie_write_mrrs function. Andrew Murray -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
