disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:14 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> On Monday, July 18, 2011 5:06:40 pm Scott Long wrote:
>>> On Jul 18, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>> On Friday, July 15, 2011 6:07:31 pm Mark McConnell wrote:
>>>>> Dear folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have two LSI raid cards, one of which (SCSI 320-I) supports
>>>>> 64-bit DMA when 4GB+ of DDR is present and another which
>>>>> does not (SATA 150-D) .  Consquently I've disabled 64-bit
>>>>> addressing for amr devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to disable 64-bit addressing for the SATA card, but
>>>>> permit it for the SCSI card.  Is this possible?
>>>>
>>>> You'd have to hack the driver perhaps to only disable 64-bit DMA for certain
>>>> PCI IDs.  It probably already does this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The driver already had a table for determining 64bit DMA based on the PCI ID.
>>> I guess there's a mistake in the table for this particular card.  I think that
>>> changing the following line to remove the AMR_ID_DO_SG64 flag will fix the
>>> problem:
>>>
>>>    {0x1000, 0x1960, AMR_ID_QUARTZ | AMR_ID_DO_SG64 | AMR_ID_PROBE_SIG},
>>>
>>> Actually, what's probably going on is that the driver is only looking at the
>>> vendor and device id's, and is ignoring the subvendor and subdevice id's that
>>> would give it a better clue on the exact hardware in use.  Fixing the driver
>>> to look at all 64bits of id info (and take into account wildcards where
>>> needed) would be a good project, if anyone is interested.
>>>
>>> Btw, I *HATE* the "chip" and "card" identifiers used in pciconf.  Can we
>>> change it to emit the standard (sub)vendor/(sub)device terminology?
>>
>> Oh, yeah.  I hate that too.  Would you want them as 4 separate entities or to
>> just rename the labels to 'devid' and 'subdevid'?
>>
>
> If we're going to change it, might as well break it down into 4 fields.  Maybe we retain the
> old format under a legacy switch and/or env variable for users that have tools that parse
> the output (cough yahoo cough).

Pretty please! This would be wonderful.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
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