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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Manu Abraham" <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Leech, Christopher" <christopher.leech@intel.com>,
	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
	"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@intel.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, "Williams,
	Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:38:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaveceah8l.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a297b360707201432q3dc976b3x214c2916ca235b6f@mail.gmail.com> (Manu Abraham's message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:32:36 +0400")

 > In a case where you have a device that which supports MSI-X (multiple
 > interrupts) but the device in default is in MSI mode, ie some
 > configuration change is needed on the device. In such a case, how
 > would one handle between MSI-X and MSI ?
 > 
 > ie the device initially doesn't support MSI-X

I don't understand the question really.  Does the PCI spec even allow
a device to be in MSI mode by default?  Surely the OS must initialize
the address/message before the device can generate an MSI?

What device do you have in mind?  I guess the interesting case is a
PCIe device that supports MSI and MSI-X but not legacy interrupts.
However I would assume such a device would come up with both MSI and
MSI-X disabled.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20  0:44 [PATCH 0/7] I/OAT: Add support for DCA - Direct Cache Access Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] I/OAT: New device ids Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:49   ` David Miller
2007-07-20  0:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] I/OAT: Rename the source file Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:49   ` David Miller
2007-07-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] I/OAT: code cleanup from checkpatch output Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:49   ` David Miller
2007-07-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 4/7] I/OAT: Split PCI startup from DMA handling code Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:50   ` David Miller
2007-07-20 10:53   ` Andrey Panin
2007-07-20 16:33     ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-07-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 5/7] I/OAT: Add support for MSI and MSI-X Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:51   ` David Miller
2007-07-20 17:43   ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-20 18:09     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-07-20 19:05       ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-20 19:19         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-07-20 19:49           ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-20 21:10             ` Leech, Christopher
2007-07-20 21:21               ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-20 21:32                 ` Manu Abraham
2007-07-20 21:38                   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-07-20 21:49                     ` Manu Abraham
2007-07-20 21:54                       ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-07-20 21:59                         ` Manu Abraham
2007-07-20 22:00                           ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-07-20 22:07                           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-07-20 21:13             ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-07-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] DCA: Add Direct Cache Access driver Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:52   ` David Miller
2007-07-20 16:35     ` Nelson, Shannon
2007-07-20  0:45 ` [PATCH 7/7] I/OAT: Add DCA services Shannon Nelson
2007-07-20  0:52   ` David Miller

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