On 11/03/2015 08:51 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> where MAX_MSI_IRQS = 32 now, but potentially can be increased up to 256.
>
> And you really oversimplified the code above. The reality is:
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_MSI_CTRLS: i++) {
> u32 status = read_msi_ctrl(i);
>
> for_each_bit(status)
> handle_irq();
> }
>
> So sure, the worst case here is MAX_MSI_CTRLS * 32, but if all
> possible 256 MSI interrupts are pending at the same time, you have
> other problems than that.
With threaded interrupts we would have 256 invocations of
wake_up_process() so nothing should take ages.
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
Sebastian
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