Roland Dreier wrote:
> > I am now wondering whether the usage of MSI would help in this case and
> > that i should be using enable_msi before request_irq ?
>
> MSI interrupts are never shared. So if pci_enable_msi() succeeds, you
> can be sure that the interrupts you get with that IRQ number are
> coming from your device.
>
i presume then i shouldn't be using IRQF_SHARED, if using MSI.
Another question would be if the device supports multiple messages, MSIX
should be used ?
In such a context, if i request for say more than the messages that i
need, say i request 16 messages, but use only 1 or 2, that does bear any
consequences ?
> But using MSI does not work on all systems, so your driver needs to
> work with standard (possibly shared) INTx interrupts too. And you
> should probably provide at least a module flag to disable the use of
> MSI, to avoid problems on buggy systems.
I should probably look for CONFIG_PCI_MSI and check whether the system
supports MSI pci_enable_msi() ?
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