linux-kernel - Re: PCI: MSI interrupts masked using prohibited method

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:54:12 +0200
From:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI: MSI interrupts masked using prohibited method

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:51:46 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > Maybe we should just not use MSI for devices without maskbits.
> 
> That seems excessive.  I wouldn't object to forbidding CPU affinity
> changes for devices:
> 
>  - Without maskbits
>  - With the intx quirk
> 
> I'd want to look into it in a bit more detail .... perhaps we could
> allow irq affinity if we don't have to change the address, only the
> data.

At least on x86, the destination processor is encoded in the message
address (see Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual Vol. 3A,
9.11.1), so it won't help.

Michal

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