From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Gabriel C" <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Mika Fischer" <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jesse Barnes" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>,
balajirrao@gmail.com, "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:06:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440804281206u6b5086a3h42192b7d36b08325@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4815DE0C.6000802@googlemail.com>
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mika Fischer wrote:
> > Hi Ingo,
> >
> > I'm having the same problem.
> >
> > Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> >> excellent. So just to make sure: this box never had proper graphics
> >> under Linux (under no previous kernel), due to the way the BIOS has set
> >> up the MTRR's, right?
> >
> > Well, not quite. X still works fine, but since the video memory is
> > overlapped by two of the existing MTRRs, X cannot add a write-combining
> > range for the video memory. That makes X rather slow especially if you
> > use DRI for Compiz etc.
>
> Well you are lucky then :)
>
> Yeah X 'worked' but it worked as slow as with vesa video driver here.
[ 0.000000] rangeX: 0000000000000000 - 00000000d0000000
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 256MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] range0: 00000000cf800000 - 00000000cf800000
[ 0.000000] range: 00000000cf800000 - 00000000d0000000
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3320MB, range: 8MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000120000000
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] range: 0000000120000000 - 0000000130000000
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 256MB, type WB
[ 0.000000] hole: 000000012c000000 - 0000000130000000
[ 0.000000] Setting variable MTRR 6, base: 4800MB, range: 64MB, type UC
so your X server need two entries for WB?
can you send out /proc/mtrr with booting with disable_mtrr_cleanup?
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 4:45 [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-20 5:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-20 6:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-20 8:17 ` [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn Yinghai Lu
2008-01-20 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-20 15:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 5:40 ` [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-21 5:44 ` [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-21 5:58 ` [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn v2 Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 6:05 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-21 6:08 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 6:14 ` Li Zefan
2008-01-21 6:57 ` [PATCH] x86_64: check if Tom2 is enabled Yinghai Lu
2008-01-21 17:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-21 17:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-21 17:49 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-21 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 18:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-21 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-21 18:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 0:00 ` [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn Yinghai Lu
[not found] ` <200801202255.02645.yinghai.lu@sun.com>
[not found] ` <200801202255.58642.yinghai.lu@sun.com>
2008-01-21 6:56 ` [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-21 16:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-01-21 19:14 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-21 20:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-21 21:37 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-23 3:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-26 0:01 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-26 0:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-26 0:37 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-28 15:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 18:07 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-01-22 16:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-23 0:23 ` [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 Yinghai Lu
2008-04-26 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-26 12:56 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-27 1:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 18:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-28 23:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 10:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 17:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-29 18:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 19:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-29 19:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-28 6:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 9:18 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 9:34 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 9:54 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 10:03 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 10:07 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 19:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 13:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 14:11 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 14:24 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 19:06 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-04-28 19:38 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 20:45 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 21:19 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 22:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 22:56 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 23:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 1:05 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-29 2:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-29 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 10:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 19:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 19:46 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 14:15 ` Gabriel C
2008-04-28 16:09 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-28 16:31 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 16:55 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-29 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 12:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-29 15:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-29 22:03 ` [patch] PCI: export resource_wc in pci sysfs Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-27 0:57 ` [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 Yinghai Lu
2008-04-27 8:21 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-27 1:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-27 8:29 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 6:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 8:38 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 9:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-28 9:44 ` Mika Fischer
2008-04-28 9:58 ` Gabriel C
2008-01-21 6:57 ` [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn v3 Yinghai Lu
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