Re: Mystery packet killing tg3

[Peter Buckingham <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> With iommu=force or CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG all IO is foced 
> through the IOMMU.
okay, that's definitely bad...

> Hmm - if you want to hack the kernel you could add udelay()s
> to the no IOMMU paths in arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c 
> and see if that cures the problem too.  If yes then the timing
> theory would be proved.
> Actually the IOMMU code does more than just delaying, it also
> does config space accesses which might flush or synchronize
> things in the PCI bridges. Perhaps adding some dummy access
> for that would be good too.
okay, i'll start to take a look at this, but it'll probably be a little 
while before i can really get to it. i'll let you know what i find out.
> The dmesg looks similar to the previous one from the IOMMU
> code perspective.
it actually looks like it's configure correctly now (at least from 
agp-gart messages), before we were getting errors. i guess the bios guys 
finally got it right ;-)
thanks,

peter