On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:28:29PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:53:01AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > I am worried that this approach will resurface old bug > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15960 > > will ask them to test for-pci2 branch. > > > > > With your approach; on a system with not enough resources to satisfy > > all the devices, when you fail to allocate 'required+optional' in the first > > round and fall back to assigning only the 'required' resources, you can get the > > reassignment order wrong, thus not allocate resources to devices for which the > > BIOS had originally allocated resources, and hence end up disabling the device. > > so even required can not be satisfied? Yes. Even required cannot be satisfied fully. RP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
