Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI: Add quirk for known incorrect MPSS

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On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 22:50:50 -0500
Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 08:54:19PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Using legacy interrupts and TLPs > 256 bytes on the SFC4000 (all
> > revisions) may cause interrupt messages to be replayed.  In some
> > systems this results in a non-recoverable MCE.  Early boards using the
> > SFC4000 set the maximum payload size supported (MPSS) to 1024 bytes
> > and we should override that.
> > 
> > There are probably other devices with similar issues, so give this
> > quirk a generic name.
> > 
> 
> Looks good to me.  If my MPS mess hasn't pissed off Linus
> sufficiently, you might try and get this into 3.1.
> 
> Acked-by: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>

Just to confirm: this only occurs when you switch over to "performance"
mode and not by default, right?

If this happens with a stock kernel (after Jon's "disable MPS
configuration by default patch has landed) then we have something else
to fix as well...

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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