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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, davem@davemloft.net,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, Martine.Silbermann@hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] PCI MSI: Store the number of messages in the msi_desc
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:26:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215401210.8970.50.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707024125.GU14894@parisc-linux.org>

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 20:41 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I also think that MSI-X could be improved by changing the interface to
> do away with this msix_entry list passed in -- just allocate the irqs
> consecutively.

Apparently some drivers rely on scattered allocation of MSI-X

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03  2:44 Multiple MSI Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-03  3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-03  3:59   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-03  4:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-03  6:44       ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-03  9:10         ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-07-03  9:17           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-03 11:31             ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-03 11:41               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04  1:52                 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-04  8:08                   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-03 11:34       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07 16:17   ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-07 16:39     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07 16:51       ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-07 23:06     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-10  0:55     ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-05 13:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 13:34   ` [PATCH 1/4] PCI MSI: Store the number of messages in the msi_desc Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07  2:05     ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-07  2:41       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07  3:26         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-07-07  3:48         ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-07 12:04           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07 16:02             ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-07 16:19               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-10  1:32             ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-10  1:35               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 13:34   ` [PATCH 2/4] PCI: Support multiple MSI Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07  2:05     ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-07  2:45       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07  3:56         ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-07 11:31           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-10  1:32             ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-10  1:43               ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-10  4:00                 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-05 13:34   ` [PATCH 3/4] AHCI: Request multiple MSIs Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-07 16:45     ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-07 17:48       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-20  7:49         ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-05 13:34   ` [PATCH 4/4] x86-64: Support for " Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 13:43   ` Multiple MSI Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-05 22:38     ` Matthew Wilcox

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