Re: [PATCH 0/4] AHCI: Conserve interrupts withpci_enable_msi_block_part() interface

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Sep 04 2013 - 10:58:06 EST


Hello,

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> Hmm.. that is actually a great idea. What I am not sure about whether is
> a dummy port still can send (spurious?) interrupts? The hardware interrupt
> handler would have to be reworked then. Seems as a yet another topic to me ;)

Only unimplemented ports are assigned to be dummies and it's highly
unlikely that they'll generate spurious interrupts. That said, I
think it'd be a good idea to be ready for that if that doesn't add too
much complexity / overhead.

Thanks.

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tejun
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