James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 19:47 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 04:36:32PM -0700, adam radford wrote: >>> This patch for the 3w-9xxx scsi driver applies on top of the >>> BKL-pushdown changes in -git9. >>> >>> This patch does the following: >>> >>> - Increase max AENs drained to 256. >>> - Add MSI support and "use_msi" module parameter. >>> - Fix bug in twa_get_param() on 4GB+. >>> - Use pci_resource_len() for ioremap(). >> Is there a reason you default use_msi to off? I would have thought >> you'd want to enable it as widely as possible. > > Hardly ... just look at our LSI fiasco with globally enabling them. > > Right at the moment, due to motherboard bugs, it looks like global > enabling of MSI by default would produce a significant increase in "my > system doesn't boot" type bugs. > > I asked Jesse if we could actually get better recognition of > motherboards with MSI problems in pci/quirks.c to forestall some of > this, but it seems to be a hard problem. I've cc'd the PCI list in case > they have better suggestions. > > James > This seems to be a general problem. Maybe there should be an LSI_SYSTEM_DEFAULT kind of parameter or function, that will enable LSI if it is default for the system on all supporting drivers. This way a user can configure LSI=on for all drivers in one place instead of configuring each driver individually. Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
