[RFC PATCH 00/11] Refactor MSI to support Non-PCI device

[Yijing Wang]

On 2014/8/4 22:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 04 August 2014, Yijing Wang wrote:
>> I have another question is some drivers will request more than one
>> MSI/MSI-X IRQ, and the driver will use them to process different things.
>> Eg. network driver generally uses one of them to process trivial network thins,
>> and others to transmit/receive data.
>>
>> So, in this case, it seems to driver need to touch the IRQ numbers.
>>
>> wr-linux:~ # cat /proc/interrupts
>>             CPU0       CPU1       CPU2     ....      CPU17      CPU18      CPU19      CPU20      CPU21      CPU22      CPU23
>>  ......
>>  100:          0          0          0               0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
>>  101:          2          0          0               0          0          0  302830488          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-0
>>  102:        110          0          0               0          0  360675897          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-1
>>  103:        109          0          0               0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-2
>>  104:        107          0          0         9678933          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-3
>>  105:        107          0          0               0  357838258          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-4
>>  106:        115          0          0               0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-5
>>  107:        114          0          0               0          0          0          0  337866096          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-6
>>  108:  373801199          0          0               0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-edge      eth0-TxRx-7
>>
> 
> I think in this example, you just need to request eight interrupts, and pass a
> different data pointer each time, pointing to the napi_struct of each of the
> NIC queues. The driver has no need to deal with the IRQ number at all,
> and I would be surprised if it cared today.

Yes, you are right, this is not a stumbling block. :)

> 
> 	Arnd
> 
> .
> 


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Thanks!
Yijing