On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:35 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Dave, Tushar N wrote: > > Somehow setting max payload to 256 from BIOS does not set this value for > > all devices. I believe this is a BIOS bug. > > And preferably, Linux should complain about it. Since we know it is going > to cause problems, and since we know it does happen, we should be raising a > ruckus about it in the kernel log (and probably fixing it to min(path) while > at it)... > > Is this something that should be raised as a feature request with the > PCI/PCIe subsystem?
The feature is there, but we ended up with: commit 5f39e6705faade2e89d119958a8c51b9b6e2c53c Author: Jon Mason <[email protected]> Date: Mon Oct 3 09:50:20 2011 -0500 PCI: Disable MPS configuration by default But you are welcome to share use of the fixup_mpss_256() quirk. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- 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/
