PCI caching question related to mvme5500

[Kate Feng]

Peter Dufault wrote:

> I'm merging the local changes I have in mvme5500 into cvs and then
> I'll submit them via the bug reporting mechanism.  While doing this I
> want to do things more properly.  This has to do with accessing a PCI
> card's memory through a cached region.
>
> To get decent throughput on the PCI data acquisition card (Acromag
> PMC341) I had to read it through a cached address.  To do this I used
> a BAT register to create a second mapping onto the PCI bus that was
> cached.  I did this by adding a fixed PCI1_MEM_CACHED address to
> libbsp/powerpc/mvme5500/include/bsp.h, setting up a BAT register, and
> accessing it through that.
>
> Much later when porting to vxWorks and again having it slow I
> realized that the board does not properly say that its memory is pre-
> fetchable.

Who was slow ? RTEMS or vxWorks ?

> After poking around I figured out how to hook it up to
> vxWorks as if it had said it was cached.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> 1. If the board properly said it was pre-fetchable would RTEMS have
> accessed a different mapping so things would have worked through a
> cached mapping?  If so I'll change it to do that.  If not, on to
> question 2.

It seems to me one could do so.

>
>
> 2. Is there a better way that my PCI1_MEM_CACHED hack that won't take
> too much time to implement?  I don't have the time to do much but I
> can at least put comments in the code around any hacks I have to
> leave in.

This sounds good.   -- Kate

>
>
> Peter