Re: PCI Burst
From: Robert Hancock
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 22:16:06 EST
Two things that I'd check, that the memory range shows up as prefetchable
(i.e. in lspci) and also that the memory region is mapped with ioremap and
not ioremap_nocache. Also, what's the region defined as in /proc/mtrr? I
think it has to be mapped as write-back for burst reads to work. When the
CPU reads in a cache line in that memory range from the bus, that should
hopefully get passed through as a burst read on the PCI bus, but that may be
chipset-dependent.
Getting PIO-mode PCI reads and writes like this to work efficiently seems a
rather difficult thing to do..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian McGrew" <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
To: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: PCI Burst
Running RedHat 7.3 with the 2.4.20 kernel.
How do I enable PCI burst mode for reading and writing on the PCI bus? We
mmap 128MB per board that we install and now that we've added our
addressing to the /proc/mtrr file, we can burst on write but we're not
seeing any burst on the read.
Any ideas?
-brian
Brian D. McGrew {brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || pacemakertaker@xxxxxxxx }
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