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authorAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>2012-11-19 16:01:29 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-01-24 17:25:12 +0100
commit51906e779f2b13b38f8153774c4c7163d412ffd9 (patch)
tree970633752f6a5cea156226cd31457289ba16f1c5 /firmware/bnx2
parent4cca6ea04d31c22a7d0436949c072b27bde41f86 (diff)
x86/MSI: Support multiple MSIs in presense of IRQ remapping
The MSI specification has several constraints in comparison with MSI-X, most notable of them is the inability to configure MSIs independently. As a result, it is impossible to dispatch interrupts from different queues to different CPUs. This is largely devalues the support of multiple MSIs in SMP systems. Also, a necessity to allocate a contiguous block of vector numbers for devices capable of multiple MSIs might cause a considerable pressure on x86 interrupt vector allocator and could lead to fragmentation of the interrupt vectors space. This patch overcomes both drawbacks in presense of IRQ remapping and lets devices take advantage of multiple queues and per-IRQ affinity assignments. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8bd86ff56b5fc118257436768aaa04489ac0a4c.1353324359.git.agordeev@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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