On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:09:48PM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote:
> > I traced the pci_alloc_consistent calls from PrimeIocFifos on my
> > system. There are two calls for each ioc. The first is for
> > 266368 bytes, the second for 16320 bytes.
> >
> > I wonder why Kamalesh's system wants the slightly different
> > amount (263200 bytes) from what my system asks for?
> >
> > It also looks to be a little unfriendly to swiotlb to ask for
> > more than 256K at a time (see IO_TLB_SEGSIZE) in swiotlb.c
> >
> > -Tony
>
> I believe those would vary a bit based on the exact firmware
> rev and perhaps nvram settings. Also driver settings, but
> those are presumably the same.
> ioc0: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} | ioc0: LSI53C1030 B2: Capabilities={Initiator}
> scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01032821h, Ports=1, MaxQ=2 | scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B2, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=2
> ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} | ioc1: LSI53C1030 B2: Capabilities={Initiator}
> scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 C0, FwRev=01032821h, Ports=1, MaxQ=2 | scsi1 : ioc1: LSI53C1030 B2, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=2
> ioc2: LSI53C1030 C0: Capabilities={Initiator} | ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
Actually, you can see that you have a different chip rev level and different
firmware revs, so that's probably why the requested sizes are a little
different.
Compare /proc/mpt/ioc0/info if you're curious. There's probably a small
difference.
jeremy
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