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| From | Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI: enable extended tags support for PCIe endpoints |
| Date | 2016-11-12 02:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sCv98-3E5-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 11/11/2016 3:58 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> I should have checked the capability here before trying to enable it. >> > I'll post a follow up patch on this. >> > >> > Is there any other feedback? > If this were completely safe to enable for every device that supported > it, why would there be an enable bit in Device Control? reading from the ECN here. https://pcisig.com/sites/default/files/specification_documents/ECN_Extended_Tag_Enable_Default_05Sept2008_final.pdf The initial value is implementation specific and functions are allowed to set it to 1 by default. > > I don't know anything about extended tags, but it worries me a little > when there's a "go-fast" switch and no explanation about when and why > we might need to go slo Based on my observation, extended tags increase the number of reads that can be queued up back to back downstream. Otherwise, the requests will not make progress until 1 tag out of 32 gets available. -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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Re: [PATCH] PCI: enable extended tags support for PCIe endpoints Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2016-11-10 19:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] PCI: enable extended tags support for PCIe endpoints Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-11-11 22:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] PCI: enable extended tags support for PCIe endpoints Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2016-11-12 02:20 +0100
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