Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

From: Ross Biro (rossb_at_google.com)
Date: 04/06/05

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To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

    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.

    [ style and grammar comments noted ]

    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.

            Ross
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