linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] PCI: Add macro for message signalled interrupt types

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:08:28 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Piotr Stankiewicz <piotr.stankiewicz@...el.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Andrew Murray <amurray@...goodpenguin.co.uk>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Kelsey Skunberg <skunberg.kelsey@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@...ux.com>,
        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] PCI: Add macro for message signalled interrupt
 types

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 06:22:40PM +0200, Piotr Stankiewicz wrote:
> There are several places in the kernel which check/ask for MSI or MSI-X
> interrupts. It would make sense to have a macro which defines all types
> of message signalled interrupts, to use in such situations. Add
> PCI_IRQ_MSI_TYPES, for this purpose.

To state my objection voices in patch 3 here again:

I think this is a very bad idea.  Everyone knows what MSI and MSI-X
mean and that directly maps to specification.  The new IMS interrupt
scheme from the Intel SIOV spec for example is a message signalled
interrupt type as well and should not be picked up automatically.

If we want to change anything in this area we should probably remove
PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES instead..