Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:47:11 -0400 | From | Ross Biro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode |
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Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > Is this related (or could it be -- or should it be) at all to the > current discussion on the linux-pci mailing list > linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz) about "PCI Error Recovery > API Proposal" ?
I'm not familiar with the proposal, but this is not related to error recovery since master aborts are a way of life on the PCI bus and things just need to deal. The only question is how.
> >> the master. This can only happen when the system is heavily loaded. > > > or a PCI device isn't playing nicely?
Yes, but at least then you could blame the device in that case.
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One thing I did fail to mention in my original post is that all of this could be done by rc scripts from user space, but that seems unclean to me.
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