bge driver and MSI

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Tue Dec 8 01:51:03 UTC 2009


David Christensen wrote:
>> Can the bge driver use more than one MSI message? If 
>> possible, what the advantage of this on a SMP system (better 
>> CPU distribution on interrupts?)?
>>

[...]

>> --
> 
> MSI is broken on this device (actually all PCI/PCI-X devices
> in the 57XX family).  The interrupt will be asserted as 
> expected but masking the interrupt does not work.  For those
> newer 1Gb PCIe devices that do work correctly with MSI, only 
> a single message is actually supported.
> 
> Dave



Might be a good thing of someone would work up a man page paragraph to 
this effect.



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