RE: [E1000-devel] 82571EB: Detected Hardware Unit Hang

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:32 +0000, Fujinaka, Todd wrote:
> Forgive me if I'm being too repetitious as I think some of this has
> been mentioned in the past.
> 
> We (and by we I mean the Ethernet part and driver) can only change the
> advertised availability of a larger MaxPayloadSize. The size is
> negotiated by both sides of the link when the link is established. The
> driver should not change the size of the link as it would be poking at
> registers outside of its scope and is controlled by the upstream
> bridge (not us).
[...]

MaxPayloadSize (MPS) is not negotiated between devices but is programmed
by the system firmware (at least for devices present at boot - the
kernel may be responsible in case of hotplug).  You can use the kernel
parameter 'pci=pcie_bus_perf' (or one of several others) to set a policy
that overrides this, but no policy will allow setting MPS above the
device's MaxPayloadSizeSupported (MPSS).

(These parameters are not documented in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt!  Someone ought to fix that.)

Ben.

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