Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:14:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | RE: Updated MSI Patches |
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Nguyen, Tom L wrote:
> > IMO Multiplexing would be preferred, we can't be allocating that many > > vectors for one device/device driver > All pre-assigned vectors to all enabled IOxAPIC(s) are reserved. > Allocating additional vectors to MSI-X driver is determined based on the > available vectors, which must be greater than the number of vectors requested > by MSI-X driver.
Hmm can you avoid grabbing all the free vectors? I think the irq controller subsystem should handle allocation of vectors. Letting MSI grab everything might leave us with problems later on.
Zwane
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