Re: [PATCH] pci: change msi-x vector to 32bit

From: James Bottomley
Date: Sat Aug 16 2008 - 10:51:46 EST


On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:42 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The 28 bits aren't enough, are they: we need domain as well (and surely we can have more than 16 domains?)
>
> current code
> static unsigned int build_irq_for_pci_dev(struct pci_dev *dev)
> {
> unsigned int irq;
>
> irq = dev->bus->number;
> irq <<= 8;
> irq |= dev->devfn;
> irq <<= 12;
>
> return irq;
> }

Where exactly is this code in the kernel? Most arches assume the irq is
an index to a compact table bounded by NR_IRQS, so something like this
would violate that assumption.

This is also the reason why it doesn't matter to assign a u32 irq to a
u16 vector. The u32 irq is a historical thing; it used to be u16 but
then sparc used a vector mapping scheme for the irq number, which I
don't believe it does any more.

> int arch_setup_msi_irq(struct pci_dev *dev, struct msi_desc *desc)
> {
> unsigned int irq;
> int ret;
> unsigned int irq_want;
>
> irq_want = build_irq_for_pci_dev(dev) + 0x100;
>
> irq = create_irq(irq_want);
>
> domain is not used yet.
>
> need to make vecter_irq to vector_domain_irq
>
> irq_desc(irq) change to domain_irq_desc(domain, irq)

So the assumption underlying this is that the same bus/dev/function on
different domains would share irq space ... that sounds possible but a
bit strange.

James


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