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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Refactor MSI to support Non-PCI device
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:45:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201408041645.50566.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53DEFECB.3030201@huawei.com>

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.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-26  3:08 [RFC PATCH 00/11] Refactor MSI to support Non-PCI device Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] PCI/MSI: Use pci_dev->msi_cap instead of msi_desc->msi_attrib.pos Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] PCI/MSI: Use new MSI type macro instead of PCI MSI flags Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] PCI/MSI: Refactor pci_dev_msi_enabled() Yijing Wang
2014-08-05 22:35   ` Stuart Yoder
2014-08-06  1:23     ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  5:57   ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  6:30     ` Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] PCI/MSI: Move MSIX table address mapping out of msix_capability_init Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] PCI/MSI: Move populate_msi_sysfs() out of msi_capability_init() Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] PCI/MSI: Save MSI irq in PCI MSI layer Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] PCI/MSI: Mask MSI-X entry in msix_setup_entries() Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] PCI/MSI: Introduce new struct msi_irqs and struct msi_ops Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] PCI/MSI: refactor PCI MSI driver Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  6:06   ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  6:34     ` Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] PCI/MSI: Split the generic MSI code into new file Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  6:18   ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  6:43     ` Yijing Wang
2014-07-26  3:08 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] x86/MSI: Refactor x86 MSI code Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  6:20   ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  7:01     ` Yijing Wang
2014-07-29 14:08 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] Refactor MSI to support Non-PCI device Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-30  2:45   ` Yijing Wang
2014-07-30  6:47     ` Jiang Liu
2014-07-30  7:20       ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-01 13:16         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-04  3:32           ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-04 14:45             ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-08-05  2:20               ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-01 13:52     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-04  6:43       ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-04 14:59         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-08-05  2:12           ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-01 10:27 ` arnab.basu at freescale.com
2014-08-04  3:03   ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  5:44     ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  6:28       ` Yijing Wang
2014-08-20  7:41         ` Bharat.Bhushan at freescale.com
2014-08-20  7:55           ` Yijing Wang
2014-09-03  7:15           ` Yijing Wang

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