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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 02:01:11PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hmmm... yean, the race condition could be an issue as multiple msi
> allocation might fail even if the driver can and explicitly handle
> multiple allocation if the quota gets reduced inbetween.

BTW, should we care about the quota getting increased inbetween?
That would entail.. kind of pci_get_msi_limit() :), but IMHO it is
not worth it.

> tejun

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Alexander Gordeev
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