From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: abraham.manu@gmail.com, rdreier@cisco.com, greg@kroah.com,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCIE
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 19:34:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4658EE32.5080506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526.154910.78725926.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
>
>> 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.
There are systems which only get a single bit indication that an MSI has
happened.
Presumably we need something like IRQF_MSI which can be set as
appropriate depending on the architecture?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 2:34 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 ` PCIE Manu Abraham
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 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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