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From: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	Tom Long Nguyen <tom.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	nd@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI:MSI Return -ENOSPC when requested vectors is not enough
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 14:04:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161202060440.GA16167@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201085243.GA24684@lst.de>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:52:43AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
> 
> I've fixed ahci to treat all errors the same in the meantime, please
> try latest Linux tree.  That being said I don't like the different
> error returns from __pci_enable_msi_range (and __pci_enable_msix_range),
> but they have been there for a while.

Ah, I've noticed that you have the fix recently which is somehow to weaken
the necessary of the change. But, that also being said that I don't like we insist
at least the inconsistent either just because something has been there *for a while*.
Both below comments from cpi_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity() and the logic itself
leads us to think that the correct return value is -NOSPC:
/**
 *...
 *Return the number of vectors allocated,
 * (which might be smaller than @max_vecs) if successful, or a negative
 * error code on error. If less than @min_vecs interrupt vectors are
 * available for @dev the function will fail with -ENOSPC.
 * ...
*/

People maybe argue that almost has no device drivers depending on the different
return value, then why we still need to do that?

Thanks,
Dennis 


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-01  2:15 [PATCH] PCI:MSI Return -ENOSPC when requested vectors is not enough Dennis Chen
2016-12-01  8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-02  6:04   ` Dennis Chen [this message]
2017-01-11 18:18 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2017-01-12 13:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-10 22:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas

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