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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] PCI PCIe portdrv: Fix allocation of interrupts (rev. 6)
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Nice work, Rafael!

Thanks for the review!

Best,
Rafael


> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> >
> > If MSI-X interrupt mode is used by the PCI Express port driver, too
> > many vectors are allocated and it is not ensured that the right
> > vectors will be used for the right services. Namely, the PCI Express
> > specification states that both PCI Express native PME and PCI Express
> > hotplug will always use the same MSI or MSI-X message for signalling
> > interrupts, which implies that the same vector will be used by both
> > of them. Also, the VC service does not use interrupts at all.
> > Moreover, is not clear which of the vectors allocated by
> > pci_enable_msix() in the current code will be used for PME and
> > hotplug and which of them will be used for AER if all of these
> > services are configured.
> >
> > For these reasons, rework the allocation of interrupts for PCI
> > Express ports so that if MSI-X are enabled, the right vectors will be
> > used for the right purposes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > ---


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