linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI/LINK: Account for BW notification in vector calculation

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Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 12:59:26 -0500
From:   Alex G <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        helgaas@...nel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     austin_bolen@...l.com, alex_gagniuc@...lteam.com,
        keith.busch@...el.com, Shyam_Iyer@...l.com, lukas@...ner.de,
        okaya@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/LINK: Account for BW notification in vector
 calculation



On 4/22/19 5:43 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On systems that don't support any PCIe services other than bandwidth
> notification, pcie_message_numbers() can return zero vectors, causing
> the vector reallocation in pcie_port_enable_irq_vec() to retry with
> zero, which fails, resulting in fallback to INTx (which might be
> broken) for the bandwidth notification service.  This can resolve
> spurious interrupt faults due to this service on some systems.
> 
> Fixes: e8303bb7a75c ("PCI/LINK: Report degraded links via link bandwidth notification")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
> ---

+1
Tested on some Dell servers. Everything works as expected. I don't have 
a system with a device that only supports bandwidth notification.

Alex