From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
abraham.manu@gmail.com, greg@kroah.com,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCIE
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 22:22:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465A6719.4040807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada3b1h3gke.fsf@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> I have a hard time imagining a PCI host bus controller that converts
> MSI interrupts back to wire interrupts that go to pins on the CPU.
> For one thing it would be hard to maintain the guarantee that
> MSI interrupts can't pass DMAs. And it would be an absolutely silly
> architecture too.
>
Well, on pretty much all CPUs interrupts sooner or later are combined to
an interrupt signal (not necessarily an external pin) on the CPU
indicating that an interrupt has happened. On many CPUs demultiplex is
then done in software.
As I said, I have seen at least one architecture where MSIs are treated
as nothing other than another PCI interrupt -- you get five status bits
from the PCI unit -- INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD, MSI. Needless to say, I
didn't bother enabling MSI on that platform. Even if it had worked
correctly, which I kind of doubt, it would probably have been a net loss.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-28 5:23 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 ` 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 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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