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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: willy@debian.org
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Subject: Re: Message Signalled Interrupt support?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:20:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030512.102023.71099561.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030512165331.GZ29534@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

   From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
   Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:53:31 +0100

   On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:32:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
   > Has anybody done any work, or put any thought, into MSI support?
   
   Work -- no.  Thought?  A little.  Seems to me that MSIs need to be
   treated as a third form of interrupts (level/edge/message).

The fact that Alpha already supports them pretty much transparently
suggests that the thing to do might very well be "nothing" :-)

To be honest, MSIs are very similar to how interrupts work on sparc64,
in that each device generates a unique interrupt cookie.  The only
different is the size of this cookie, MSIs are larger than sparc64's.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-12 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12 16:32 Message Signalled Interrupt support? Jeff Garzik
2003-05-12 16:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-12 17:20   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-05-12 18:54     ` Mika Penttilä
2003-05-12 17:43   ` Matt Porter
2003-05-12 18:20     ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-12 18:48       ` Matt Porter
2003-05-13 11:21         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-12 17:26 Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-12 17:53 Nakajima, Jun
2003-05-12 18:26 Nakajima, Jun

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