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From: "Shawn Jin" <shawnxjin@gmail.com>
To: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: ppcdev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: MSI support on Linux PCI implementation for Ocotea
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:45:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3d0340b0606161445w5acb4da8j26870f56a4bf4d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150413771.7725.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Ben,

> Now, regarding MSI, as you have noticed, the situation isn't great. I'm
> currently in the middle of reworking our interrupt management (and
> interrupt numbers allocation layer) and Michael Ellermann is looking at
> the MSI issue in parallel.

Just one point about MSI(-X) message address and data format. I think
it should be the platform that defines the content. Current
implementation doesn't have this flexibility. We have a design where
MSI mode uses message data to carry vector number info while MSI-X
mode uses message address to carry this info. Although it seems
strange, but I think it's allowed by the spec.

Thanks,
-Shawn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-15 21:14 MSI support on Linux PCI implementation for Ocotea Shawn Jin
2006-06-15 23:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-15 23:31   ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-16  0:45   ` Shawn Jin
2006-06-16 21:45   ` Shawn Jin [this message]
2006-06-16 22:13     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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