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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MSI broken in libata?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:11:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B484829.6060405@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64bb37e0912250122n4e0e1842q88c0dad7e99ec6a7@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/25/2009 06:22 PM, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> As reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/19/82 the new MSI support
> for sata_sil24 does not work for me.
> This is still the same with 2.6.33-rc2.
> 
> Why I think, this might be a problem within libata:
>  * other drivers can use MSI successful on my system (tg3, radeon, hda-intel)
>  * happens both in sata_sil24 and sata_nv
>  * the count in /proc/interrupts increases for the MSIs assigned to
> sata_sil24/sata_nv, so interrupt delivery seems to work
>  * only writing seems to fail

How does it fail?  Timeouts?  Also, ahci enables MSI by default if
available and works fine on many configurations so I don't think
anything in libata core layer is broken regarding MSI (there just
isn't anything which can break).

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-09 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25  9:22 MSI broken in libata? Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-09  9:11 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-01-10  4:33   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-11  1:15     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-11  1:39       ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-11  2:17         ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-16 21:58         ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-17 19:22           ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-17 21:11             ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-18 20:51               ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-19  2:03                 ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-19  7:00                   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-19 20:20                   ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-20  3:00                     ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-20  6:48                       ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-01-22  0:53                         ` Robert Hancock
2010-01-11  6:44       ` Torsten Kaiser

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