From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:03:52 -0700 > At the very least you are left with the problem of allocating multiple > contiguous destinations. Which has the potential to create > fragmentation on all supported platforms. I don't think this is a very real concern. With 256 MSI slots available per domain, at least on sparc64, no real case can cause problems. And even so, drivers can and should fall back when allocations fail anyways. That's what drivers, at least the ones I have written, do even for MSI-X. For example, the NIU driver scales back the number of MSI-X vectors it askes for if the original request cannot be satisfied. > My honest opinion is that the should have deprecated multi-msi after > the introduction of the msi-x specification. I don't think this would have materially influenced what happened with AHCI at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
