On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Joseph Salisbury <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/09/2013 03:10 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> That doesn't answer my question at all. >>> >>> I understand that this change makes it so Joseph doesn't have to use >>> "pci=realloc=off". But why should auto-reallocation be limited to >>> buses that have resources above 4GB? That doesn't make any sense. >>> >>> We should fix the reallocation code so it can deal with this case. If >>> there's not enough space for everything, obviously we have to leave >>> something unassigned. A ROM BAR is a good candidate for leaving >>> unassigned, because most of the time we can get along without it. >> Yes, that is ideal and not that simple. >> but that would be hard to backport to old kernels. >> >> BTW, Joseph, can you try >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git >> for-pci-3.14 >> with pci=realloc=on >> >> on that system? >> >> Thanks >> >> Yinghai > I noticed there was some back and forth on this thread. Do you still > want me to test this version, Yinghai?
Yes, if that works, we would not need to put the patch in upstream for limiting realloc auto scope. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
