Re: Message Signalled Interrupt support?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:32:49PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Has anybody done any work, or put any thought, into MSI support?

Work -- no.  Thought?  A little.  Seems to me that MSIs need to be treated
as a third form of interrupts (level/edge/message).  The address that
the MSI will write to is clearly architecture dependent (may even be
irq-controller-dependent, depending on your architecture).  request_irq()
is an insufficient function to deal with this -- request_msi() may be
needed instead.  It'll need to return an address to pass to the card.
(We need a mechanism to decide whether it's a 32-bit or 64-bit address).

Oh, and don't make this too PCI-specific -- native PARISC interrupts
are MSI and you can see how handled it in arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c.

> Would things massively break if I set up MSI manually in the driver?

Might do, might not.

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