[RFC/PATCH 0/16] Ops based MSI Implementation

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jan 26 19:57:48 EST 2007


>> You code appears to be nice simple clean and to not support MSI in
>> a useful way.  I may be reading too quickly but at the moment your
>> infrastructure appears useless if you are on a platform that doesn't
>> enforce MSI's get filtered with a legacy interrupt controller.
>
> Hrm?
> Isn't the point of MSI to avoid any sort of interrupt controller?

No, the point of MSI is that it travels in the normal data
stream (and stays ordered with it).  In the end it *has* to
touch an interrupt controller (maybe the CPU-internal one).


Segher




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