Re: [PATCH 4/5] xHCI: Enable multiple interrupters

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:30:44PM +0800, Xu, Andiry wrote:
> OK, when you say "5 event rings with the same interrupter", I took it
> as xHCI interrupter. If you mean MSI interrupt vector, yes, one MSI
> interrupt vector can has multiple xHCI interrupters.
> 
> xHCI driver can allocate multiple interrupters for MSI, but as long as
> Linux only support one vector for MSI, how do we find the interrupter
> when a MSI interrupt is triggered? I'm afraid all the interrupter
> register set needs to be checked to find out the interrupter with
> an interrupt pending. That will cause performance lost again.

Hmm, yes, that's probably true.  Ok, you should stick with only one
xHCI event ring for MSI until the x86 MSI multi-vector patches get
merged.

Sarah Sharp
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