Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] PCI: Solve two bridge window sizing issues

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Jun 11 2024 - 19:12:15 EST


On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 04:10:48PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2024, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's a series that contains two fixes to PCI bridge window sizing
> > algorithm. Together, they should enable remove & rescan cycle to work
> > for a PCI bus that has PCI devices with optional resources and/or
> > disparity in BAR sizes.
> >
> > For the second fix, I chose to expose find_resource_space() from
> > kernel/resource.c because it should increase accuracy of the cannot-fit
> > decision (currently that function is called find_resource()). In order
> > to do that sensibly, a few improvements seemed in order to make its
> > interface and name of the function sane before exposing it. Thus, the
> > few extra patches on resource side.
> >
> > v3:
>
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> It's a bit unclear to me what is your view about the status of this
> series? I see you placed these first into some wip branches and then into
> resource branch but the state of the patches in patchwork is still marked
> as "New" nor have you sent any notice they'd have been "applied".
>
> I'm thinking this from the perspective of whether I should send v4 with
> those minor comments from Andy addressed or not? I could also send those
> minor things as separate patches on top of the series if that's
> easier/better for you.

Sorry, I dropped the ball in the middle here. The pci/resource branch
has been in linux-next since May 29, but I forgot to send a note. If
you want to tweak for Andy's comments, send an incremental patch and
I'll be happy to squash it/them in.