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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:43:39 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
To: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: Add support for turning PCIe ECRC on or off
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:52:09 -0600
Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> wrote:

> PCI: Add support for turning PCIe ECRC on or off
> 
> Adds support for PCI Express transaction layer end-to-end CRC checking
> (ECRC).  This patch will enable/disable ECRC checking by
> setting/clearing the ECRC Check Enable and/or ECRC Generation Enable
> bits for devices that support ECRC.
> 
> The ECRC setting is controlled by the "pci=ecrc=<policy>" command-line
> option. If this option is not set or is set to 'bios", the enable and
> generation bits are left in whatever state that firmware/BIOS set
> them to. The "off" setting turns them off, and the "on" option turns
> them on (if the device supports it).
> 
> Turning ECRC on or off can be a data integrity versus performance
> tradeoff.  In theory, turning it on will catch more data errors,
> turning it off means possibly better performance since CRC does not
> need to be calculated by the PCIe hardware and packet sizes are
> reduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
> ---
> 

Applied to linux-next, thanks.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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