Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750721AbXAOOZX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:25:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750728AbXAOOZX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:25:23 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:10160 "EHLO pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbXAOOZX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:25:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:24:31 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: prioritize PCI traffic ? In-reply-to: To: Soeren Sonnenburg Cc: Linux Kernel Message-id: <45AB8E9F.9020901@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 26 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Dear all, > > is it possible to explicitly tell the kernel to prioritize PCI traffic > for a number of cards in pci slots x,y,z ? > > I am asking as severe ide traffic causes lost frames when watching TV > using 2 DVB cards + vdr... This is simply due to the fact that the PCI > bus is saturated... > > So, is any prioritizing of the PCI bus possible ? That would be chipset dependent. Some chipsets may be able to assign different arbitration priorities to different slots, but certainly you can't do this generically.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/