Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:47:19 -0700 | | From | Grant Grundler <> | | Subject | Re: MSI messages | |
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:07:53PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Grant Grundler wrote:
> >> To put it short: i am wondering how i should read the MSI messages.
> >
> > The "message" is actually mapped to an the interrupt vector by the core
> > generic interrupt handling code in the kernel.
> >
> > A "GSI" (Generic Sys Interrupt?) is associated with each entry in
> > the MSI-X table. Driver then calls request_irq() to bind an interrupt
> > handler to each GSI. So the driver never directly sees the "message".
> >
>
> I think "GSI (Global System Interrupt)" is for identifying the I/O
> APIC pin among multiple I/O APICs. Maybe you wanted to mean the
> interrupt number managed by kernel (frequently called "IRQ")?
I thought "GSI" and "kernel interrupt number" are equivalents.
But I could easily be confusing the terms here. If "GSI" is only
used for identifying APIC input lines, then that's not right term.
> Or am I misunderstanding something?
You probably understand it better than I do. :)
thanks,
grant
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