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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/77] Re-design MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement pattern
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:55:03 -0700
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To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Andy King <acking@vmware.com>, Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>, Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, iss_storagedev@hp.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-dr
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On 10/02/2013 03:29 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> 
> As result, device drivers will cease to use the overcomplicated
> repeated fallbacks technique and resort to a straightforward
> pattern - determine the number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required
> before calling pci_enable_msi_block() and pci_enable_msix()
> interfaces:
> 
> 
> 	rc = pci_msix_table_size(adapter->pdev);
> 	if (rc < 0)
> 		return rc;
> 
> 	nvec = min(nvec, rc);
> 	if (nvec < FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC) {
> 		return -ENOSPC;
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < nvec; i++)
> 		adapter->msix_entries[i].entry = i;
> 
> 	rc = pci_enable_msix(adapter->pdev,
> 			     adapter->msix_entries, nvec);
> 	return rc;
> 

Why not add a minimum number to pci_enable_msix(), i.e.:

pci_enable_msix(pdev, msix_entries, nvec, minvec)

... which means "nvec" is the number of interrupts *requested*, and
"minvec" is the minimum acceptable number (otherwise fail).

	-hpa