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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: tom.l.nguyen@intel.com, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: PCI MSI: the new interrupt routing headache
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:44:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437C18AF.7050508@pobox.com> (raw)


I just got SATA working on Marvell.  After fixing a bunch of issues in 
the driver, the final issue was lack of interrupts.  Disabling 
CONFIG_PCI_MSI solved that, and suddenly the driver was working quite 
nicely.

The general problem is that pci_enable_msi() is not failing, on systems 
that do not support MSI.  This leads to Infiniband, tg3, and other 
drivers working around this problem by including an MSI-interrupts-work 
test during probe.

Perhaps its because I like leading edge stuff, and am playing with 
drivers for PCI MSI hardware, but it seems like I am running into this 
pci_enable_msi()-doesnt-fail problem more and more frequently.  First 
tg3, then AHCI, now sata_mv.

What needs to be done, to detect working PCI message signalled 
interrupts such that pci_enable_msi() fails properly?

Thanks,

	Jeff




             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17  5:44 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-11-17 19:07 ` PCI MSI: the new interrupt routing headache Max Krasnyansky
2005-11-18 20:52 ` Roland Dreier

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