problem with if_re on RELENG_7

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 02:47:44 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:09:26PM +0200, Cezary Morga wrote:
> Pyun YongHyeon pisze:
> >Ok, I think you've have to live without MSI. I'll rearrange re(4)
> >to disable MSI on RTL8168 SPIN2 device.
> >Thanks for testing!
> 
> Silly question, but what is this MSI on a network card?
> 

MSI stands for Message Signaled Interrupt. Virtually any controller 
that honors PCI 2.2 or higher and PCI express can have MSI
capability. One of user visible change would be no more interrupt
sharing among devices. Goodle is your friend.


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