Re: [PATCH 2/2 v5] irqchip/Layerscape: Add SCFG MSI controller support

From: Alexander Stein
Date: Wed Mar 23 2016 - 07:19:44 EST


On Wednesday 23 March 2016 11:08:04, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Using an intel e1000e card which uses 3 MSIs. But the IRQ numbers are a bit strange though:
> >> grep eth3 /proc/interrupts
> >>
> >> 63: 49 0 MSI 134742016 Edge eth3-rx-0
> >> 64: 3 0 MSI 134742017 Edge eth3-tx-0
> >> 65: 4 0 MSI 134742018 Edge eth3
>
> This is a virtual interrupt number (despite being displayed as a hwirq),
> computed from the PCI requester ID and the MSI index. You shouldn't
> infer anything from it.

Why show it anyway then if you can't infer anything?

Best regards,
Alexander