On Thursday 07 May 2009 18:23:50 Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 03:53 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:40:15PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote:
> > > It's indeed weird. Why the semantic of pci_enable_msix can be changed
> > > to "enable msix, or tell me how many vector do you have"? You can
> > > simply call pci_msix_table_size() to get what you want, also without
> > > any more work, no? I can't understand...
> >
> > Here's a good example. Let's suppose you have a driver which supports
> > two different models of cards, one has 16 MSI-X interrupts, the other
> > has 10. You can call pci_enable_msix() asking for 16 vectors. If your
> > card is model A, you get 16 interrupts. If your card is model B, it says
> > "you can have 10".
> >
> > This is less work in the driver (since it must implement falling back to
> > a smaller number of interrupts *anyway*) than interrogating the card to
> > find out how many interrupts there are, then requesting the right number,
> > and still having the fallback path which is going to be less tested.
>
> Not to mention that there's no guarantee that you'll get as many
> interrupts as the device supports, so you should really be coding to
> cope with that anyway. Like the example in MSI-HOWTO.txt:
>
> 197 static int foo_driver_enable_msix(struct foo_adapter *adapter, int
> nvec) 198 {
> 199 while (nvec >= FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC) {
> 200 rc = pci_enable_msix(adapter->pdev,
> 201 adapter->msix_entries, nvec);
> 202 if (rc > 0)
> 203 nvec = rc;
> 204 else
> 205 return rc;
> 206 }
> 207
> 208 return -ENOSPC;
> 209 }
>
> So I agree, this patch is an improvement.
>
Oh yeah.
Forgot irq counts can also be changed from time to time.
OK, there should be a loop, so that's fine. :)
--
regards
Yang, Sheng
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