Re: MSI messages

Kenji Kaneshige
2008-12-15T07:08:30Z

Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:38:24PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering how to handle this:
>>
>> Does the kernel somehow handle MSI message readback from the PCI config space
>> for the MSI message as described in 6.8.1 of the PCI Bus specification 2.3 or
>> does a device specific driver have to read the Message Address and Data ?
>>
>> To put it short: i am wondering how i should read the MSI messages.
>
> The "message" is actually mapped to an the interrupt vector by the core
> generic interrupt handling code in the kernel.
>
> A "GSI" (Generic Sys Interrupt?) is associated with each entry in
> the MSI-X table. Driver then calls request_irq() to bind an interrupt
> handler to each GSI. So the driver never directly sees the "message".
>

I think "GSI (Global System Interrupt)" is for identifying the I/O
APIC pin among multiple I/O APICs. Maybe you wanted to mean the
interrupt number managed by kernel (frequently called "IRQ")?
Or am I misunderstanding something?

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige