Re: [PATCH] Add support for multiple MSI on x86

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 17:13:47 EST


On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> You said MSI-X has replaced MSI, which is true of course but doesn't
> change older devices in the field.

I know, but not for the price of nested loops over nr of cpus with
locks held and interrupts disabled implemented with a metric sh*tload
of horrible code.

Thanks,

tglx
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