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From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, greg@kroah.com,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCIE
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:57:49 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658BB6D.5030603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526.154910.78725926.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:03:12 +0400
> 
>> i presume then i shouldn't be using IRQF_SHARED, if using MSI.
> 
> That's actually a really good question.
> 
> It is likely architecture dependant whether the PCI controller wires
> unique MSI interrupts to shared cpu interrupt lines.
> 
> I can imagine many systems where the cpu simply doesn't have enough
> interrupt pins to uniquely identify every possible MSI interrupt
> source.
> 

Ok, that explains it a bit, but i am pulling out a bit of hair on the
other aspects i wrote in this thread, of course i am a bit new to PCIe
and hence all my questions/doubts. Hope someone can clear them.

Thanks,
Manu


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-26 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-23 12:15 PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-23 15:59 ` PCIE Greg KH
2007-05-23 20:59   ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-23 21:10     ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-23 22:11       ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-23 22:23         ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-23 23:03           ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-23 23:51             ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-24  0:07               ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-24 22:32               ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-25  3:25                 ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-26 15:03                   ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-26 18:28                     ` PCIE Grant Grundler
2007-05-26 19:27                       ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-28  1:15                         ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-28  1:25                           ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-28  2:04                           ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-28  2:24                             ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-28  2:47                               ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-26 22:49                     ` PCIE David Miller
2007-05-26 22:57                       ` Manu Abraham [this message]
2007-05-26 23:55                       ` PCIE Grant Grundler
2007-05-27  0:00                         ` PCIE David Miller
2007-05-27  0:16                           ` PCIE Grant Grundler
2007-05-27  0:30                             ` PCIE David Miller
2007-05-27  1:01                               ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-27  1:49                                 ` PCIE Grant Grundler
2007-05-27 20:28                                   ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-28  1:10                           ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-27  2:34                       ` PCIE H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27  7:40                         ` PCIE David Miller
2007-05-27 20:31                           ` PCIE Manu Abraham
2007-05-28  1:05                         ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-28  1:03                       ` PCIE Roland Dreier
2007-05-28  2:54                         ` PCIE David Miller
2007-05-28  4:18                         ` PCIE Grant Grundler
2007-05-28  5:23                           ` PCIE H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-28  5:22                         ` PCIE H. Peter Anvin

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