| Date | Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:07:16 +0200 | From | Alexander Gordeev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 00/77] Re-design MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement pattern |
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 02:21:17PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > Whee.... that's a lot more than I expected. I was just scanning > multiple msi users. Maybe we can stage the work in more manageable > steps so that you don't have to go through massive conversion only to > do it all over again afterwards and likewise people don't get > bombarded on each iteration? Maybe we can first update pci / msi code > proper, msi and then msix?
Multipe MSIs is just a handful of drivers, really. MSI-X impact still will be huge. But if we opt a different name for the new pci_enable_msix() then we could first update pci/msi, then drivers (in few stages possibly) and finally remove the old implementation.
> tejun
-- Regards, Alexander Gordeev agordeev@redhat.com
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