On 13-10-24 10:31 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:51:58AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: >> I haven't looked into any details but, if the above works for most use >> cases, it looks really good to me. > > Well, if we reuse Michael's statistics: > > - 58 drivers call pci_enable_msix() > - 24 try a single allocation and then fallback to MSI/LSI > - 19 use the loop style allocation > - 14 try an allocation, and if it fails retry once > > ...then I expect most of 19/58 (loop style) could be converted to > pcim_enable_msix() and pcim_enable_msix_range() and all of 14/58 > (single fallback) should be converted to pcim_enable_msix() users. Those are just the in-kernel drivers. There are many, many more out-of-kernel drivers for embedded platforms, hardware in-development, etc.. Let's not be overly presumptive about the size of the user base. Cheers -- 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
