Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Roman Kononov
On 06/14/2007 03:59 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On 6/14/07, Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now that I think about it, it makes sense that you can't set writeback >> to noncoherent (nonsystem) memory space. What if another device wants to >> write to that memory. There is no way for the ca

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Jones
org >> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory >> >> Roman Kononov wrote: >> >>> On 06/13/2007 09:39 AM, Myles Watson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that map

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread ron minnich
On 6/14/07, Marc Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I think about it, it makes sense that you can't set writeback > to noncoherent (nonsystem) memory space. What if another device wants to > write to that memory. There is no way for the cache to snoop that it was > written. You would need

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Myles Watson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Jones > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:39 PM > To: Roman Kononov > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linuxbios@linuxbios.org > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron cac

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Jones
Roman Kononov wrote: > On 06/13/2007 09:39 AM, Myles Watson wrote: > >> I’m using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot >> of the memory space, but I’m struggling trying to get the Opteron to >> read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable >> M

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Myles Watson
> Myles Watson wrote: > >> On 6/13/07, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot > >>> of the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to > >>> read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Myles Watson
> On 06/13/2007 09:39 AM, Myles Watson wrote: > > I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot > > of the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to > > read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable > > MTRRs in the device drive

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Roman Kononov
On 06/13/2007 09:39 AM, Myles Watson wrote: > I’m using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot > of the memory space, but I’m struggling trying to get the Opteron to > read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable > MTRRs in the device driver to wri

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Jones
Myles Watson wrote: >> On 6/13/07, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot >>> of the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to >>> read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the va

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-13 Thread Myles Watson
> On 6/13/07, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot > > of the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to > > read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable > > MTRRs in the devi

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-13 Thread yhlu
On 6/13/07, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot of > the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to read and > write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable MTRRs in the > device

[LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-13 Thread Myles Watson
I'm using LinuxBIOS on my Tyan s2892. I have a device that maps a lot of the memory space, but I'm struggling trying to get the Opteron to read and write to my device in larger blocks. I have set the variable MTRRs in the device driver to writeback (witnessed by /proc/mtrr), but I still get 64-bi