> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> >> > loop mtrr chunk_size and gran_size from 1M to 2G to find out optimal value.
>> >> >
>> >> > so user don't need to add mtrr_chunk_size and mtrr_gran_size,
>> >> >
>> >> > if optimal value is not found, print out all list to help select less optimal
>> >> > value.
>> >> >
>> >> > add mtrr_spare_reg_nr= so user could set 2 instead of 1, if the card need more entries.
>> >>
>> >> WOW :)
>> >>
>> >> With this patch all is working fine , no RAM is lost , X is fast ,
>> >> so far everything else seems to work fine. \o/
>> >>
>> >> I will test on 32bit tomorrow and stress the box later on today to be sure everything works fine.
>> >>
>> >> There is my dmesg , meminfo , mtrr output with this patch on top x86-latest :
>> >>
>> >>
http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/
>> >
>> > while look at that you boot log, it seems there is one bug about hole
>> > position. but I look that code, it should already be handled.
>> >
>> > Can you send out boot msg and /proc/mtrr when using
>> > disable_mtrr_cleanup command line?
>>
>> Sure , there it is :
>>
>>
http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/dmesg2
>>
http://frugalware.org/~crazy/mtrr_x86-latest/proc_mtrr2
>>
>> I'm still using this version of your patch , didn't got any time to update to v2.
>> If you want me to try v2 tell me , I have some free time in about 30 minutes.
>>
> original
>
> reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
> reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
> reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
> reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
> reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1
> reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
>
> after clean up
>
> reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
> reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
> reg02: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
> reg03: base=0xcfe00000 (3326MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
> reg04: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
> reg05: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
> reg06: base=0x12c000000 (4800MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1
>
> so the hole base is not right, it should be at 3318MB instead of 3326MB.
> please hold to test v3 ...
