linux/drivers
Jon Mason b03e7495a8 PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric
On a given PCI-E fabric, each device, bridge, and root port can have a
different PCI-E maximum payload size.  There is a sizable performance
boost for having the largest possible maximum payload size on each PCI-E
device.  However, if improperly configured, fatal bus errors can occur.
Thus, it is important to ensure that PCI-E payloads sends by a device
are never larger than the MPS setting of all devices on the way to the
destination.

This can be achieved two ways:

- A conservative approach is to use the smallest common denominator of
  the entire tree below a root complex for every device on that fabric.

This means for example that having a 128 bytes MPS USB controller on one
leg of a switch will dramatically reduce performances of a video card or
10GE adapter on another leg of that same switch.

It also means that any hierarchy supporting hotplug slots (including
expresscard or thunderbolt I suppose, dbl check that) will have to be
entirely clamped to 128 bytes since we cannot predict what will be
plugged into those slots, and we cannot change the MPS on a "live"
system.

- A more optimal way is possible, if it falls within a couple of
  constraints:
* The top-level host bridge will never generate packets larger than the
  smallest TLP (or if it can be controlled independently from its MPS at
  least)
* The device will never generate packets larger than MPS (which can be
  configured via MRRS)
* No support of direct PCI-E <-> PCI-E transfers between devices without
  some additional code to specifically deal with that case

Then we can use an approach that basically ignores downstream requests
and focuses exclusively on upstream requests. In that case, all we need
to care about is that a device MPS is no larger than its parent MPS,
which allows us to keep all switches/bridges to the max MPS supported by
their parent and eventually the PHB.

In this case, your USB controller would no longer "starve" your 10GE
Ethernet and your hotplug slots won't affect your global MPS.
Additionally, the hotplugged devices themselves can be configured to a
larger MPS up to the value configured in the hotplug bridge.

To choose between the two available options, two PCI kernel boot args
have been added to the PCI calls.  "pcie_bus_safe" will provide the
former behavior, while "pcie_bus_perf" will perform the latter behavior.
By default, the latter behavior is used.

NOTE: due to the location of the enablement, each arch will need to add
calls to this function.  This patch only enables x86.

This patch includes a number of changes recommended by Benjamin
Herrenschmidt.

Tested-by: Jordan_Hargrave@dell.com
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-08-01 11:49:16 -07:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2011-07-26 09:21:09 -07:00
amba
ata drivers: use kzalloc/kcalloc instead of 'kmalloc+memset', where possible 2011-07-25 20:57:13 -07:00
atm atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
auxdisplay
base atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
bcma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
block atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-07-15 10:05:24 -04:00
cdrom
char ramoops: fix compile failure on parisc 2011-07-29 23:41:09 -07:00
clk ARM: Consolidate the clkdev header files 2011-07-19 18:09:45 +02:00
clocksource Merge branch 'timers-clocksource-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-23 10:34:47 -07:00
connector atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
cpufreq Merge branch 'drm-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2011-07-26 09:21:09 -07:00
cpuidle
crypto n2_crypto: Attach on Niagara-T3. 2011-07-28 01:30:07 -07:00
dca
dio
dma Merge branch 'sh-latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x 2011-08-01 06:10:16 -10:00
edac atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
eisa eisa/pci_eisa.c: fix section mismatch 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
firewire atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
firmware Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2011-07-25 23:06:24 -07:00
gpio Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-08-01 06:13:48 -10:00
gpu atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
hid Merge branches 'roccat', 'upstream' and 'wiimote' into for-linus 2011-07-22 22:47:08 +02:00
hwmon Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging 2011-07-30 08:57:57 -10:00
hwspinlock
i2c i2c-eg20t : Fix the issue of Combined R/W transfer mode 2011-07-27 00:02:28 +01:00
ide Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2011-07-11 14:15:55 +02:00
idle
ieee802154
infiniband Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2011-07-27 13:21:40 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2011-07-27 09:24:56 -07:00
iommu iommu/amd: Don't use MSI address range for DMA addresses 2011-07-06 17:14:44 +02:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-07-28 05:58:19 -07:00
leds arch/arm/mach-ux500/board-u5500.c: calibrate ALS input voltage 2011-07-25 20:57:15 -07:00
lguest lguest: Fix in/out emulation 2011-07-22 14:39:51 +09:30
macintosh drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations 2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
mca
md Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md 2011-07-28 05:50:27 -07:00
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-07-30 00:08:53 -07:00
memstick
message Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-07-30 08:36:02 -10:00
mfd mfd: Fix mismatch in twl4030 mutex lock-unlock 2011-07-31 23:28:27 +02:00
misc atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
mmc mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add device tree probe support 2011-07-27 09:31:39 +08:00
mtd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6 2011-07-31 06:23:08 -10:00
nfc NFC: pn533: use after free in pn533_disconnect() 2011-07-26 16:27:24 -04:00
nubus
of Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-08-01 06:13:48 -10:00
oprofile atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
parisc
parport Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6 2011-07-25 23:09:27 -07:00
pci PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric 2011-08-01 11:49:16 -07:00
pcmcia Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6 2011-07-31 06:23:08 -10:00
platform asus-wmi: ->is_visible() can't return negative 2011-07-24 10:12:19 -04:00
pnp Merge 'akpm' patch series 2011-07-25 21:00:19 -07:00
power Merge git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6 2011-07-31 06:24:50 -10:00
pps
ps3
ptp
rapidio
regulator regulator: Storing tps65912 error codes in u8 2011-07-31 23:28:26 +02:00
rtc rtc: fix hrtimer deadlock 2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
s390 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
sbus atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-07-30 08:36:02 -10:00
sfi
sh Merge branch 'sh-latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x 2011-08-01 06:10:16 -10:00
sn
spi Merge branch 'spi/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-07-22 14:52:44 -07:00
ssb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
staging Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-07-30 00:08:53 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2011-07-27 13:21:40 -07:00
tc
telephony
thermal
tty Merge branch 'sh-latest' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x 2011-08-01 06:10:16 -10:00
uio Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2011-07-25 23:06:24 -07:00
usb Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-07-30 00:08:53 -07:00
uwb uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment 2011-07-21 14:03:41 +02:00
vhost atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
video Merge branch 'for-3.1-rc1' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux 2011-08-01 06:13:05 -10:00
virt drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c 2011-07-22 09:24:39 -05:00
virtio virtio: expose for non-virtualization users too 2011-07-23 16:20:30 +09:30
vlynq
w1 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
watchdog Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-watchdog 2011-07-29 23:28:47 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-07-29 23:43:32 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00