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Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:14:07 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        markmc@dataabstractsolutions.com, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?
Message-ID:  <201107181714.07827.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <797CACDE-729E-4F3A-AEFF-531C00C2B83A@samsco.org>
References:  <4E20BA23.13717.66C6F57@markmcconnell.iinet.com> <201107181402.12755.jhb@freebsd.org> <797CACDE-729E-4F3A-AEFF-531C00C2B83A@samsco.org>

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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'?

-- 
John Baldwin



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