Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 7 May 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > 1) We don't set the Latency timers which are a cards timeslice on the
> > PCI bus. This can result in non-peak performance from various PCI
> > devices.
>
> Shouldn't we do that in the kernel.
As long as it gets done somewhere.
I just noticed that the maximum value here is 255, so you can't set these
values high enough to totally ignore contention :)
> > 2) We don't setup any PCI arbiters, the PCI arbiter is the scheduler
> > for the PCI bus. This is less of an issue as generally, the
> > hardware is relatively inefficient but it could still be an issue.
>
> I don't even know how :-)
The arbiters are per northbridge, so if we see them in the northbridge
documetation we should set them up.
Eric
