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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI broken in libata?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:17:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4A8A54.8030406@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4A815A.60503@gmail.com>

Hello, Robert.

On 01/11/2010 10:39 AM, Robert Hancock wrote:
> It'd be interesting to see if it makes a difference, but I don't think
> the patch is quite right. According to the datasheet, doing the MSI ack
> while the interrupt source is still pending will cause a new MSI to be
> sent, so if you do it before handling the interrupt you'll generate a
> spurious interrupt after every real one.

Ah... okay, so the generation of MSI is level triggered?  If so, your
original patch is correct.  I was thinking it might be edge triggered
and it should be cleared before checking master event mask.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25  9:22 MSI broken in libata? Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-09  9:11 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-10  4:33   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-11  1:15     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-11  1:39       ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-11  2:17         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-01-16 21:58         ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-17 19:22           ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-17 21:11             ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-18 20:51               ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-19  2:03                 ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-19  7:00                   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-19 20:20                   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-20  3:00                     ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-20  6:48                       ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-22  0:53                         ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-11  6:44       ` Torsten Kaiser

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