From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
Maen Suleiman <maen@marvell.com>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>,
Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>,
Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFCv1 07/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: add MSI support to interrupt controller driver
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:04:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303262204.05546.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130326215546.GA8650@obsidianresearch.com>
On Tuesday 26 March 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I'll let Arnd answer this one, but I'm pretty sure that using IRQ
> > domains is the way to go. The fact that a number of drivers don't yet
> > use IRQ domains is maybe just because they haven't been converted yet.
>
> Maybe, but they have irq domain code as well.. I'm curious about the
> answer too :)
To expand on my previous answer: irq_alloc_descs can require a lot of
memory if you have a lot of MSIs. If the driver only has 16 MSIs,
there is probably no reason to not assign all of them at once, but if
you have 2048 MSIs, creating the mapping only when you need it is
much more space efficient.
Arnd
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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFCv1 07/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: add MSI support to interrupt controller driver
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:04:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303262204.05546.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130326215546.GA8650@obsidianresearch.com>
On Tuesday 26 March 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I'll let Arnd answer this one, but I'm pretty sure that using IRQ
> > domains is the way to go. The fact that a number of drivers don't yet
> > use IRQ domains is maybe just because they haven't been converted yet.
>
> Maybe, but they have irq domain code as well.. I'm curious about the
> answer too :)
To expand on my previous answer: irq_alloc_descs can require a lot of
memory if you have a lot of MSIs. If the driver only has 16 MSIs,
there is probably no reason to not assign all of them at once, but if
you have 2048 MSIs, creating the mapping only when you need it is
much more space efficient.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 16:52 [RFCv1 00/11] MSI support for Marvell EBU PCIe driver Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 01/11] arm: mvebu: move L2 cache initialization in init_early() Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 16:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 16:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 17:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-27 1:53 ` Rob Herring
2013-03-27 1:53 ` Rob Herring
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 02/11] irqchip: move IRQ driver for Armada 370/XP Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 03/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: move IRQ handler to avoid forward declaration Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 04/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: slightly cleanup irq controller driver Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 05/11] arm: mvebu: do not duplicate the mpic alias Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 06/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: use a separate mpic node Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 07/11] irqchip: armada-370-xp: add MSI support to interrupt controller driver Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 17:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 17:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 18:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 18:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 18:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 20:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 20:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 21:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 21:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 18:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 18:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 21:16 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:16 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 21:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 22:04 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-03-26 22:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 22:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 22:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 22:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 22:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-26 21:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 21:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 21:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 08/11] PCI: Introduce new MSI chip infrastructure Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-08 22:28 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-04-08 22:28 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-04-09 8:11 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:11 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:11 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:22 ` Thierry Reding
2013-04-09 8:22 ` Thierry Reding
2013-04-09 8:22 ` Thierry Reding
2013-04-09 8:25 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:25 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:25 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-09 8:18 ` Thierry Reding
2013-04-09 8:18 ` Thierry Reding
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 09/11] pci: mvebu: add MSI support Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-27 10:07 ` Andrew Murray
2013-03-27 10:07 ` Andrew Murray
2013-03-27 10:07 ` Andrew Murray
2013-04-08 22:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-04-08 22:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-30 12:15 ` Thierry Reding
2013-05-30 12:15 ` Thierry Reding
2013-05-30 18:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-05-30 18:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 10/11] arm: mvebu: enable MSI support in DT Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 16:52 ` [RFCv1 11/11] arm: mvebu: enable PCI MSI support in defconfig Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:05 ` [RFCv1 00/11] MSI support for Marvell EBU PCIe driver Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 17:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-03-26 17:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-03-26 17:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-04 9:16 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-04 9:16 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2013-04-04 9:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-04 9:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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