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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	dave.jiang@intel.com, alison.schofield@intel.com,
	bwidawsk@kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	a.manzanares@samsung.com, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cxl/pci: Add generic MSI-X/MSI irq support
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 17:54:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221102225406.GA5803@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221102171524.thsz2kwtirhxn7ee@offworld>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 10:15:24AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> ...

> > The MSI case is ugly because the Interrupt Message Number can change
> > when we set Multiple Message Enable.  Maybe we can separate it out and
> > have a less than optimal solution for this case, like allocating one
> > or two vectors and polling if that's not enough.  I expect most
> > devices will support MSI-X.
> 
> Would only supporting MSI-X be so terrible?

My gut feeling is that polling when MSI-X isn't supported wouldn't be
terrible, but I have no data on how common devices that only support
MSI are.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-02 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20221018030010.20913-1-dave@stgolabs.net>
     [not found] ` <20221018030010.20913-2-dave@stgolabs.net>
     [not found]   ` <63546939ea062_1419294f6@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch>
     [not found]     ` <Y1XX1tVLQoYmYnSM@iweiny-mobl>
     [not found]       ` <6355f3b933235_1d21294da@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch>
2022-10-24 12:36         ` [PATCH 1/2] cxl/pci: Add generic MSI-X/MSI irq support Jonathan Cameron
2022-10-25 23:25           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-10-30  8:38             ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-02 17:15             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-11-02 22:54               ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2022-11-02 23:42               ` Ira Weiny
2022-11-03  0:18                 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-11-03 18:09                   ` Jonathan Cameron
2022-11-10  3:30                     ` Ira Weiny
2022-11-11 21:18                       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2022-11-03 18:08               ` Jonathan Cameron

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