On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:58:53AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> Would it be possible to do some kind of 2-stage allocation.
> In the first pass the driver would pass a minimum and desired
> number of MSI-X interrupts, but not actually be given any.

Repeated calls to msi_enable_msi/msix() is what we are trying to avoid.

> Interrupts could then be allocated after it is known how many
> are required and how many are available.

Yep, that what we are heading to. So basic pattern I see would be like this:

        int foo_driver_enable_msix(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec)
        {
                ...

                rc = pci_msix_table_size(pdev);
                if (rc < 0)
                        return rc;

                nvec = min(nvec, rc);
                if (nvec < FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC)
                        goto single_msi;

                for (i = 0; i < nvec; i++)
                        entries[i].entry = i;

                rc = pci_enable_msix(pdev, entries, nvec);
                if (rc)
                        goto single_msi;

                return 0;

        single_msi:
                ...

        }

But this will break pSeries and we might end up with something like this:

        int foo_driver_enable_msix(struct pci_dev *pdev, int nvec)
        {
                ...

                rc = pci_msix_table_size(pdev);
                if (rc < 0)
                        return rc;

                nvec = min(nvec, rc);
                if (nvec < FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC)
                        goto single_msi;

                rc = pci_get_msix_limit(pdev, nvec);
                if (rc < 0)
                        return rc;

                nvec = min(nvec, rc);
                if (nvec < FOO_DRIVER_MINIMUM_NVEC)
                        goto single_msi;

                for (i = 0; i < nvec; i++)
                        entries[i].entry = i;

                rc = pci_enable_msix(pdev, entries, nvec);
                if (rc)
                        goto single_msi;

                return 0;

        single_msi:
                ...

        }

>       David

-- 
Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agord...@redhat.com
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