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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
	nedev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: MSI interrupts and disable_irq
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:43:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471665D7.5020607@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440710161101o34a1b982w95c7473f0ec744ed@mail.gmail.com>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Correct, but the overall point was that MSI-X conceptually conflicts
>> with the existing "lockless" disable_irq() schedule, which was written
>> when there was a one-one relationship between irq, PCI device, and work
>> to be done.
>>     
>
> at this point, nic in mcp55 is using msi or INTx.
>
>   
Correct.
For msi-x, the driver does three disable_irq() calls to the correct 
vectors. ugly, but nevertheless correct.
The bug only affected msi: The driver did disable_irq(<old INTx irq 
num>) instead of disable_irq(<new msi-x irq num>).
The patch that I've attached to the bugzilla report 9047 seems to fix 
the crash, thus I would propose to apply it to 2.6.23 and 2.6.24. I'll 
send a seperate mail.

All other problem [reduce code duplication, less ugly locking, ...] 
should be fixed with independant patches.

--
    Manfred


> YH
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46FC15A9.1070803@nvidia.com>
2007-09-29  2:47 ` MSI interrupts and disable_irq Jeff Garzik
2007-09-29  3:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 22:12     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-06  6:23       ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-06 17:43   ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-06 17:59     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-07 16:54       ` Manfred Spraul
2007-10-13  9:30   ` Manfred Spraul
2007-10-14  5:59     ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-14  7:15       ` Manfred Spraul
2007-10-14 19:55         ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-14 21:47         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-14 23:15           ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-14 23:36             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-15 22:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 17:23       ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-16 17:39         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 17:59           ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-16 19:44             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 18:01           ` Yinghai Lu
2007-10-17 19:43             ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2007-10-02 19:03 ` Manfred Spraul

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