[PATCH v2 08/11] of: Increase MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jan 29 12:29:33 EST 2014


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:26:35PM +0000, Suravee Suthikulanit wrote:
> On 1/29/2014 11:16 AM, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:59:12AM -0500, Suravee Suthikulanit wrote:
> >> Actually, we are using 32 on the AMD system. So, do you think we can set
> >> this to 32 instead?
> >
> > I think that's ok.
> >
> > But are we really talking about number of SMRs or number of StreamIDs
> > per master device here? Ie. are you just having 32 SMRs for an SMMU on
> > your AMD system or do you have master devices which have 32 StreamIDs?
> >
> > If it's just number of SMRs we don't need to modify this macro.
> >
> 
> I am referring to the case where each mmu-master can have upto 32 streamID.

Crikey, how many SMRs do you have? Andreas and I have been struggling to
write a decent allocator for those, so if you have any algorithms that don't
require a quantum computer, we'd love to hear from you :)!

Will



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