Re: [PATCH PCI PCIe portdrv: Fix allocation of interrupts (rev. 5)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday 19 January 2009, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > (snip)
> >>> If MSI-X are supported, it allocates as many vectors as there are entries
> >>> in the port's MSI-X table, but no more than 32, and figures out which of them
> >>> will be used for the port services.
> >> The patch didn't check which services are available during the MSI-X set up
> >> which was wrong.
> >>
> >> Also, in the meantime, i thought it might be a good idea to free the interrupt
> >> routing table entries that aren't going to be used after all.
> >>
> >> The patch below adds this to the previous version and checks for the
> >> availability of port services in the MSI-X setup resume.  I hope it will
> >> be acceptable to everyone.
> >>
[--snip--]
> > 
> > /* Are there any unused entries? */
> > if (nr_allocated > nvec) {
> > 	/* this port have extra entries not for services we know... */
> > 
> 
> Sounds good. That is,
> 
> If the number of entries we required equals to nr_entries (from
> Table size field in Message Control register), we don't need to
> drop the first MSI-X setup.

I've split the patch into two parts, one adding pci_msix_table_size() and the
other containing the rest of changes.  Also, I've modified the second patch to
follow the above observation.

The patches will follow as replies to this message.

Thanks,
Rafael

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