Re: Possible regression: MSI vector leakage since 2.6.18-rc5ish (Unable to repeatedly allocate/free MSI interrupt)

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Mon Jan 29 2007 - 14:44:49 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Auke Kok wrote:
>>
>> Yes. A few hundred cycles of loading/unloading snd_hda_intel with enable_msi=1
>> didn't break it on i386.
>>
>> I sure hope this can get into 2.6.20!
>
> Eric, can you write an explanation, add your sign-off, Auke's ACK, and
> send out the result? The patch looked ok to me, but I do want the more
> deeper explanation too (and sign-off, of course).

Sure. Give me a couple of minutes.

Eric
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