I feel it's dangerous to set the En bit on Intel platform, If the HT MSI En is set, the MSI should be expected to transform to HT INT message format. It may cause interrupt lost or hardware internal state machine failed depend on the hardware design.
BRs Peer Chen -----Original Message----- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 6:48 AM To: Peer Chen Cc: peerchen; linux-kernel; akpm; Andy Currid Subject: Re: [PATCH] msi: set 'En' bit of MSI Mapping Capability "Peer Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The quirk is for our Intel platform, we don't want HT MSI mapping > enabled in any of our devices. Why is this a problem? I seem to recall a real hypertransport bus downstream of the Intel cpu. If there is a real hypertransport bus in the middle then what happens if someone puts a tunnel that uses hypertransport between the two chips? I feel very dense right now. I don't understand why enabling the mapping on an Intel based system is a problem. I am afraid there is some important gap in my understanding in which case we may need to rethink enabling the hypertransport capability by default. If disabling the hypertransport bus is simply an optimization, or it is to deal with an issue that appears exclusive to Nvidia chips I have no problem with your quirk. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/