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authorNico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>2021-03-07 01:39:18 +0100
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2021-03-15 06:04:38 +0000
commit968ef759887b4da09115a6b2d2e2afa223091792 (patch)
treef9fff4f429080a168255596eadd5bb65d80cbd45 /util/amdtools
parentec2cbecf9368878ba6c2fbb42d02213ef8d04a91 (diff)
pciexp_device: Rewrite LTR configuration
I was bugged by spurious "Failed to enable LTR" messages for years. Looking at the the current algorithm, it is flawed in multiple ways: * It looks like the author didn't know they implemented a recursive algorithm (pciexp_enable_ltr()) inside another recursive algorithm (pciexp_scan_bridge()). Thus, at every tree level, everything is run again for the whole sub- tree. * LTR is enabled no matter if `.set_ltr_max_latencies` is implemented or not. Leaving the endpoints' LTR settings at 0: They are told to always report zero tolerance. In theory, depending on the root-complex implementation, this may result in higher power consumption than without LTR messages. * `.set_ltr_max_latencies` is only considered for the direct parent of a device. Thus, even with it implemented, an endpoint below a (non-root) bridge may suffer from the 0 settings as described above. * Due to the double-recursive nature, LTR is enabled starting with the endpoints, then moving up the tree, while the PCIe spec tells us to do it in the exact opposite order. With the current implementation of pciexp_scan_bridge(), it is hard to hook anything in that runs for each device from top to bottom. So the proposed solution still adds some redundancy: First, for every device that uses pciexp_scan_bus(), we enable LTR if possible (see below). Then, when returning from the bus- scanning recursion, we enable LTR for every device and configure the maximum latencies (if supported). The latter runs again on all bridges, because it's hard to know if pciexp_scan_bus() was used for them. When to enable LTR: * For all devices that implement `.set_ltr_max_latencies`. * For all devices below a bridge that has it enabled already. Change-Id: I2c5b8658f1fc8cec15e8b0824464c6fc9bee7e0e Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/51328 Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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