From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] PCI/MSI: Factor out pci_get_msi_cap() interface
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:42:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOS58YOZ4u7po=wb-v4Ua=oBiaKG==S1LMT70SdGEcNfAOVcOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130926143901.GE16774@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com>
Hello,
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> wrote:
> I can imagine a scenario where the first device probes in, requests its
Well, we can imagine a lot of thing but usually have to draw the line somewhere.
> optimal number, acquires that number and exhausts MSIs in pSeries firmware.
> The next few devices possibly end up with single MSI, since no MSIs left
> to satisfy their optimal numbers. If one of those single-MSI'ed devices
> happened to be a high-performance HBA hitting a degraded performance that
> alone would force (IBM) to introduce the quotas. Now, if the same/another
> device happened does not support the legacy interrupt mode and no MSI
> resources have left in the platform firmware at all...
If that happens, that's just the platform code being dumb. Quota is
there to prevent that from happening, right? Let's please do something
simple and worry about problems if they actually exist.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 12:51 [PATCH v2 0/6] AHCI: Conserve interrupts with pci_enable_msi_block_part() interface Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 12:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] PCI/MSI: Introduce " Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 12:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] PCI/MSI: Factor out pci_get_msi_cap() interface Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 13:09 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-05 15:03 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 15:04 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-05 15:40 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 15:44 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-05 18:54 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 20:06 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-06 16:01 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-09-06 16:06 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-06 23:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-09-09 15:20 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/9] PCI/MSI/PPC: Fix wrong RTAS error code reporting Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/9] PCI/MSI/PPC: Make return values only 0/-errno when MSIs allocated Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:24 ` [PATCH 3/9] PCI/MSI/x86: " Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:24 ` [PATCH 4/9] PCI/MSI/MIPS: " Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/9] PCI/MSI/PPC: Make return values only 0/-errno when MSIs allocated[PATCH 5/9] PCI/MSI/s390: " Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:38 ` scrap this one Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:26 ` [PATCH 5/9] PCI/MSI/s390: Make return values only 0/-errno when MSIs allocated Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-10 12:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-10 13:09 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:27 ` [PATCH 6/9] PCI/MSI/s390: Remove superfluous check of MSI type Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:28 ` [PATCH 7/9] PCI/MSI/s390: Make return values only 0/-errno when MSIs allocated Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:29 ` [PATCH 8/9] PCI/MSI: Fix return value when populate_msi_sysfs() failed Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:29 ` [PATCH 9/9] PCI/MSI: Make return values only 0/-errno when MSIs allocated Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-09 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] PCI/MSI: Factor out pci_get_msi_cap() interface Tejun Heo
2013-09-09 15:45 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-16 10:22 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-17 14:30 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-09-18 9:48 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-18 14:22 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-18 16:50 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-20 8:24 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-20 12:27 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-25 18:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-09-25 20:58 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-25 21:00 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-26 7:46 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-26 8:58 ` David Laight
2013-09-26 10:45 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-26 11:34 ` David Laight
2013-09-26 12:13 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-26 13:11 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-26 14:39 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-26 14:42 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-10-01 7:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-09-20 12:26 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-01 7:26 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-01 7:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-01 11:55 ` Tejun Heo
2013-10-02 2:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-02 3:23 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-26 12:32 ` Mark Lord
2013-09-26 13:03 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-10-02 2:46 ` Mark Lord
2013-10-02 7:26 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-12-18 18:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-10-01 7:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-01 10:35 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-10-02 2:43 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-10-02 7:10 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-06 13:17 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] MSI/x86: Support pci_enable_msi_block_part() interface Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 12:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] AHCI: Conserve interrupts with " Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 13:10 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-05 15:23 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] AHCI: Check MRSM bit when multiple MSIs enabled Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 13:11 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-05 15:25 ` Alexander Gordeev
2013-09-05 14:32 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-05 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] PCI/MSI: Get rid of pci_enable_msi_block_auto() interface Alexander Gordeev
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