Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/77] Re-design MSI/MSI-X interrupts enablement pattern

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:55:03 -0700

On 10/02/2013 03:29 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> 
> As result, device drivers will cease to use the overcomplicated
> repeated fallbacks technique and resort to a straightforward
> pattern - determine the number of MSI/MSI-X interrupts required
> before calling pci_enable_msi_block() and pci_enable_msix()
> interfaces:
> 
> 
> 	rc = pci_msix_table_size(adapter->pdev);
> 	if (rc < 0)
> 		return rc;
> 
> 	nvec = min(nvec, rc);
> 	if (nvec < FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC) {
> 		return -ENOSPC;
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < nvec; i++)
> 		adapter->msix_entries[i].entry = i;
> 
> 	rc = pci_enable_msix(adapter->pdev,
> 			     adapter->msix_entries, nvec);
> 	return rc;
> 

Why not add a minimum number to pci_enable_msix(), i.e.:

pci_enable_msix(pdev, msix_entries, nvec, minvec)

... which means "nvec" is the number of interrupts *requested*, and
"minvec" is the minimum acceptable number (otherwise fail).

	-hpa