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SubjectRe: prioritize PCI traffic ?
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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