Hello,
>
> As you know, the transition from CPU address space to PCI address space is
> in the host bridge. For PCIe, this is logically part of the Root Complex and is
> logically upstream from the Root Ports. If you want to reallocate space
> between Root Ports, i.e., remove space from one and add it to another port
> below the same Root Complex, that's strictly a PCI thing and is at least
> conceptually possible today with no new firmware or DT support.
>
Yes, I understand.
> But you're probably asking about increasing the space assigned to the Root
> Complex itself.
Bingo! That's the problem I am bothered about.
> The ACPI model supports that -- the PNP0A08 host bridge
> device could advertise a _PRS that shows how much space could potentially
> be assigned to the bridge, and we could use _SRS to assign more space
> (possibly after using _SRS on a different bridge to make space available).
> There is no Linux code to do this today, so at this point it's just a theoretical
> possibility. And, of course, it requires BIOS support.
Thanks a lot for the pointers, I'll look it up.
>
> The ACPI driver (drivers/acpi/pci_root.c) is generic, so it doesn't know how to
> reprogram the host controller except by using _PRS and _SRS (and even that
> isn't implemented yet).
>
> > PS: The immediate thought of device tree comes to mind - but what
> > about architectures that don't support it yet. (FWIW - I'm using x86 -
> > and I do not know if its host controller driver supports / will
> > support any device tree options to specify PCI windows)
>
> If you have DT and a native host controller driver, the driver may know how
> to reprogram the host controller. Then you would just have to work out how
> to manage the address space you want to assign to the controller.
>
> If you're using the generic DT driver
> (drivers/pci/host/pci-host-generic.c), it's in the same situation as the ACPI
> driver: it doesn't know how to reprogram the windows. And as far as I know
> there's no DT mechanism similar to _PRS/_SRS.
>
OK, understand. I guess there is work that needs to be done there. Yes, We are in the process of adopting device trees for x86. I'll dig into if we can use that.
Thanks again,
Rajat
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