[PATCH v2 0/8] PCI: Align small (<4k) BARs

David Laight David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Wed Jul 17 23:21:19 AEST 2024


From: David Laight
> Sent: 17 July 2024 14:15
> 
> From: Stewart Hildebrand
> > Sent: 16 July 2024 20:33
> >
> > This series sets the default minimum resource alignment to 4k for memory
> > BARs. In preparation, it makes an optimization and addresses some corner
> > cases observed when reallocating BARs. I consider the prepapatory
> > patches to be prerequisites to changing the default BAR alignment.
> 
> Should the BARs be page aligned on systems with large pages?
> At least as an option for hypervisor pass-through and any than can be mmap()ed
> into userspace.

The actual patch says PAGE_SIZE ..

	David

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