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Re: [PATCH] x86: mtrr_cleanup safe to get more spare regs now

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From: Yinghai Lu
Subject: [PATCH] x86: mtrr_cleanup safe to get more spare regs now
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 - 1:39 pm

don't need to break earlier, could get more optimized setting automatically

results:

1. hpa
reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
reg01: base=0x13c000000 (5056MB), size=  64MB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size=   1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size=   8MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 128M        num_reg: 6      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC
Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC
range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
hole: 000000013c000000 - 0000000140000000
Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 5056MB, range: 64MB, type UC

2. Dylan Taft
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1
reg04: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xc7e00000 (3198MB), size=   2MB: uncachable, count=1
reg06: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1

will get
Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
gran_size: 1M   chunk_size: 4M  num_reg: 6      lose RAM: 0M
range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c8000000
Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 128MB, type WB
hole: 00000000c7e00000 - ...
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From: H. Peter Anvin
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: mtrr_cleanup safe to get more spare regs now
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 - 6:34 pm

Tried it out, works great.  Added to x86/mtrr.  Thanks!

	-hpa
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