Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] serial: 8250_pci: Always try MSI/MSI-X

[Ralf Ramsauer]

On 14/07/2021 15:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM Ralf Ramsauer
> <ralf.ramsauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 14/07/2021 08:54, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> On 13. 07. 21, 12:40, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
>>> Hmm, have you checked the commit which introduced the whitelist?
>>>
>>>     Nevertheless, this needs to handled with care: while many 8250 devices
>>>     actually claim to support MSI(-X) interrupts it should not be
>>> enabled be
>>>     default. I had at least one device in my hands with broken MSI
>>>     implementation.
>>>
>>>     So better introduce a whitelist with devices that are known to support
>>>     MSI(-X) interrupts. I tested all devices mentioned in the patch.
>>>
>>>
>>> You should have at least CCed the author for an input.
>>
>> Yep, back then I was testing three different 8250 pci cards. All of them
>> claimed to support MSI, while one really worked with MSI, the one that I
>> whitelisted. So I thought it would be better to use legacy IRQs as long
>> as no one tested a specific card to work with MSI.
> 
> Can you shed a light eventually what those cards are?

That's been a while. Let me check that if I can still find them, and
I'll test them once again against MSI being enabled. But this can take
some days.

  Ralf

> 
>> Don't do that… And don't convert it to a blacklist. A blacklist will
>> break users until they report that something doesn't work.
> 
> White list is not okay either. MSI in general is a right thing to do.
> preventing users from MSI is asking for the performance degradation
> and IRQ resource conflicts (in case the IRQ line is shared).
> 
> Besides that, shouldn't it be rather the specific field in private (to
> 8250_pci) structure than constantly growing list?