qla_wxyz pci_set_mwi question
Matthew Wilcox
matthew at wil.cx
Fri Apr 13 06:04:38 EST 2007
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:37:13PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Why should it fail? If there's a platform which can't support a
> > cacheline size that the qla2xyz card can handle, it should be able to
> > happily fall back to doing plain writes instead of MWIs. IMO, it should
> > just call pci_set_mwi() and ignore the result.
>
> I believe there were some erratas on some ISP2xxx chips where MWI
> needed to be set for proper operation. I'll go back, verify and
> update the patch accordingly.
Hmm. The thing is that pci_set_mwi() returns success on machines where
MWI is disabled (currently only PPC64). Perhaps it needs to fail
instead.
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