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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: matthew@wil.cx
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, grundler@parisc-linux.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
	rdunlap@xenotime.net, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Multiple MSI, take 3
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:32:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711.033242.58168774.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080711102326.GR14894@parisc-linux.org>

From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:23:26 -0600

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:06:33AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > So unless the performance of the AHCI is better by a huge amount I don't
> > see the point, and even then I am extremely sceptical.
> 
> I don't have performance numbers yet, but surely you can see that
> avoiding a register read in the interrupt path is a large win?

Such overhead is going to be amortized.

AHCI is not like networking where we have lots of very small
transactions to deal with, and therefore the per-IRQ overhead can
begin to dominate.

Therefore, like Eric, I think workng on multiple MSI is a very dubious
usage of one's time.  But, it's your time, so use it how you wish :)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11  0:57 Multiple MSI, take 3 Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11  0:59 ` [PATCH] PCI MSI: Replace 'type' with 'is_msix' Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11  0:59 ` [PATCH] PCI: Add support for multiple MSI Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11  8:28   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2008-07-11  9:45     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-12  3:45     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-11  1:00 ` [PATCH] Rewrite MSI-HOWTO Matthew Wilcox
2008-09-26  6:42   ` Grant Grundler
2008-07-11  1:00 ` [PATCH] AHCI: Request multiple MSIs Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11  1:00 ` [PATCH] x86-64: Support for " Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11  4:50   ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-07-11  8:50     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-14  1:08       ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-07-11 10:06 ` Multiple MSI, take 3 Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-11 10:23   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11 10:32     ` David Miller [this message]
2008-07-11 10:41       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11 11:05     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-11 11:34     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-11 12:17       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11 15:10         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-11 21:59   ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-11 22:59     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-11 23:15       ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-11 23:59         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-12  3:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-12  4:41         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-12  7:36           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-13 22:30             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-13 22:44               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-13 23:29                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-14  0:17                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-14  0:44                     ` David Miller
2008-07-14  2:03                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-14  3:19                         ` David Miller
2008-09-26  5:30 ` Jike Song
2008-09-27 19:04   ` Matthew Wilcox

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