Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:24:31 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: prioritize PCI traffic ? |
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Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Dear all, > > is it possible to explicitly tell the kernel to prioritize PCI traffic > for a number of cards in pci slots x,y,z ? > > I am asking as severe ide traffic causes lost frames when watching TV > using 2 DVB cards + vdr... This is simply due to the fact that the PCI > bus is saturated... > > So, is any prioritizing of the PCI bus possible ?
That would be chipset dependent. Some chipsets may be able to assign different arbitration priorities to different slots, but certainly you can't do this generically..
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