Re: [PATCH 0/7] PCI: Improvements for native PCIe hotplug

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 04:56:33 EST


On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 05:17:13PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently when plugging PCIe device using native PCIe hotplug Linux PCI
> core tries to allocate bus space and resources so that the newly enumerated
> topology barely fits there. Now, if the PCIe topology that was just plugged
> in has more PCIe hotplug ports we will run out of bus space and resources
> pretty quickly. There is a workaround for this by passing pci=hpbussize=N
> in the kernel command line but it runs to the same situation after next
> hotplug.

Hi Bjorn,

Do you have any comments regarding this series? I think I need to respin
this on top of Andy's for_each_pci_bridge() patch but if there are other
comments I can address them at the same time.

Thanks!