Re: [PATCH] msi: Immediately mask and unmask msi-x irqs.

From: Siddha, Suresh B
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 16:58:42 EST


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:39:43PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Further now that we cache the msi message that read_msi_msg should go
> away and we should use the cached version from the msi_desc.

Ok. Then this patch is a must.

> > Don't we need the flush for the PCI_CAP_ID_MSI case aswell.
>
> At least the 3.0 pci spec does not allow pci configuration access to
> be posted. So unless we find some hardware that actually does post
> pci configuration writes we should be ok.

ok. Thanks.
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