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 variable MTRRs

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

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 driver to

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 the variable

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 caching of device memory Roman Kononov

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 a

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Opteron caching of device memory

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Jones
Myles Watson wrote: -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 caching of device

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 cache to

[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

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 driver to

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 device driver