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SubjectRe: PCI: MSI interrupts masked using prohibited method
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:51:46 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > Maybe we should just not use MSI for devices without maskbits.
>
> That seems excessive. I wouldn't object to forbidding CPU affinity
> changes for devices:
>
> - Without maskbits
> - With the intx quirk
>
> I'd want to look into it in a bit more detail .... perhaps we could
> allow irq affinity if we don't have to change the address, only the
> data.

At least on x86, the destination processor is encoded in the message
address (see Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual Vol. 3A,
9.11.1), so it won't help.

Michal



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