Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:43:47 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Ordering between PCI config space writes and MMIO reads? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:36:32 -0600
> This is only really a problem for setup (when we program the BARs), so > it seems silly to enforce an ordering at any other time. Reluctantly, I > must disagree with Jeff -- drivers need to fix this.
One thing is that we definitely don't want to fix this by, for example, reading back the PCI_COMMAND register or something like that. That causes two problems:
1) Some PCI config writes shut the device down and make it no respond to some kinds of PCI config transactions. One example is putting the device into D3 or similar power state, another is performing a device reset.
2) Several drivers use PCI config space accesses to touch the main registers in order to workaround bugs in the PCI-X implementation of their chip or similar (tg3 has a few cases like this), doing a PCI config space readback will kill performance quite a bit for an already slow situation.
In fact, I do recall that one of the x86 PCI config space access implementations did a readback like this, and we had to remove it because it caused problems when doing a reset on tg3 chips when using PCI config space register write to do the reset. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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