On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:40:41PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > The thing is, do we even have cases where arch code returns positive > > return to indicate possible partial allocation? If not, the whole > > interface is convoluted for no good reason and we can just make > > everything return 0 or -errno, which is a lot simpler. No? > > As I mentioned in my other note, at least PPC has a concept of MSI quota, > so exceeding it would be the very case, I believe. An update here. No other arch supports multiple MSIs besides Intel (+IOMMU). Yet, ironically, the concept of possible partial allocation was adopted from MSI-X. I briefly checked all archs and it seems none of them throws out a possible other number of MSIs > 1 (including PPC I mistakenly read). -- Regards, Alexander Gordeev agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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
