On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:32:53AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > On 13-09-18 05:48 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > The last pattern makes most of sense to me and could be updated with a more > > clear sequence - a call to (bit modified) pci_msix_table_size() followed > > by a call to pci_enable_msix(). I think this pattern can effectively > > supersede the currently recommended "loop" practice. > > The loop is still necessary, because there's a race between those two calls, > so that pci_enable_msix() can still fail due to lack of MSIX slots.
Moreover, the existing loop pattern is racy and could fail just as easily ;) But (1) that is something drivers should expect and (2) there is basically nothing to race against - that is probably the reason it has not been a problem for pSeries. So I think we should not care about this. -- Regards, Alexander Gordeev agord...@redhat.com _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
