Re: [PATCH 07/13] pci: Provide sensible irq vector alloc/free routines

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jun 30 2016 - 13:35:17 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 07:28:09PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> I think I need to look at the updated version :)

I've astarted processing the comments for the whole series and plan
to post an update tomorrow.

> > > > +#define PCI_IRQ_NOMSIX (1 << 0) /* don't try to use MSI-X interrupts */
> > >
> > > BTW, why PCI_IRQ_NOMSIX only and no PCI_IRQ_NOMSI?
> >
> > Because there is no need to call this API if your device only supports
> > a single legacy vector anyway.
>
> What if a device reports (up to 32) MSIs and MSI-X allocation failed? The
> driver might prefer the legacy single (i.e. due to errata in MSI), but
> there is no flag to ask for it.

Ok, I'll add it for now.