From: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:51:08 -0700
> In fact at least IBM pSeries boxes seem to be able to use MSI to
> generate multiple interrupts from the same device -- BenH can probably
> give details.
Sparc64 PCI-E controllers can do this as well.
> For high-performance devices this is not really true. The InfiniBand
> mthca driver can use MSI to get a single interrupt, or MSI-X to get
> different interrupts for different types of events. MSI-X allows the
> read of the "interrupt cause register" to be avoided, and this ends up
> making a measurable performance difference for the fast path.
>
> Also, obviously, having multiple interrupts means you can bind
> different interrupts to different CPUs, which will become very
> important if/when things like multi-queue NICs are supported.
Right, and this is used heavily in the NIU driver for example.
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