Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13

From: Mike Travis
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 21:03:20 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> so we have one list to map domain/bus/dev/func to bits [31,12] in irq ?
>>
>
> That works, although having a more generic allocation mechanism which
> isn't so tied to MSI-X would make more sense.
>
> -hpa

Hmm, I see I picked up this conversation quite late. I would agree that
trying to map any set of fixed bit fields to domain/bus/device/function
would be problematic (esp. since I don't understand how MSI's figure into
the deal.)

Is there some reason why we need that?

Thanks,
Mike
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