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From: David Miller <davem@...>
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Subject: Re: Multiple MSI, take 3
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 11:19 pm

From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:03:52 -0700


I don't think this is a very real concern.  With 256 MSI slots
available per domain, at least on sparc64, no real case can cause
problems.

And even so, drivers can and should fall back when allocations fail
anyways.

That's what drivers, at least the ones I have written, do even for
MSI-X.  For example, the NIU driver scales back the number of
MSI-X vectors it askes for if the original request cannot be
satisfied.


I don't think this would have materially influenced what happened with
AHCI at all.
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Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 8:57 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Jike Song, (Fri Sep 26, 1:30 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Sep 27, 3:04 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Jul 11, 6:06 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Suresh Siddha, (Fri Jul 11, 5:59 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Jul 11, 6:59 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Fri Jul 11, 11:52 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Jul 12, 12:41 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Sat Jul 12, 3:36 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Sun Jul 13, 6:30 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Sun Jul 13, 6:44 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Sun Jul 13, 7:29 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Sun Jul 13, 8:17 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, David Miller, (Sun Jul 13, 8:44 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Sun Jul 13, 10:03 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, David Miller, (Sun Jul 13, 11:19 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Suresh Siddha, (Fri Jul 11, 7:15 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Jul 11, 7:59 pm)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 6:23 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Jul 11, 7:34 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 8:17 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 11:10 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Jul 11, 7:05 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, David Miller, (Fri Jul 11, 6:32 am)
Re: Multiple MSI, take 3, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 6:41 am)
[PATCH] Rewrite MSI-HOWTO, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 9:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Rewrite MSI-HOWTO, Grant Grundler, (Fri Sep 26, 2:42 am)
[PATCH] PCI: Add support for multiple MSI, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 8:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add support for multiple MSI, Hidetoshi Seto, (Fri Jul 11, 4:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add support for multiple MSI, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Fri Jul 11, 11:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add support for multiple MSI, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 5:45 am)
[PATCH] AHCI: Request multiple MSIs, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 9:00 pm)
[PATCH] PCI MSI: Replace 'type' with 'is_msix', Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 8:59 pm)
[PATCH] x86-64: Support for multiple MSIs, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Jul 10, 9:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Support for multiple MSIs, Kenji Kaneshige, (Fri Jul 11, 12:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Support for multiple MSIs, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Jul 11, 4:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Support for multiple MSIs, Kenji Kaneshige, (Sun Jul 13, 9:08 pm)