Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:01:18 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I think it's either: (a) irqbalance doesn't balance MSI interrupts at > all or (b) the MSI interrupt code doesn't honor balancing requests even if > it does.
it's (A) right now for sure for irqbalanced at least.
> The suspend problem reported by Stephen is another such thing - where MSI > itself wasn't a problem, but stupid (probably broken) firmware code at > wakeup broke it by an unforseen interaction. Again, that is probably > related to the fact that nobody has ever really tested it (ie firmware > "engineers" obviously didn't actually ever test anything with MSI enabled > and in use, and there really is no excuse for firmware messing with the > MSI setting - other than the usual "firmware is inevitably buggy" thing).
ok so maybe this should be in the linux firmware kit.. it has suspend/resume tests after all ;)
if there is a "do this then this to reproduce" scenario it's even likely it's trivial to put into a testcase...
> > Linus -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org
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