Am 11.10.2010 23:45, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Stefan Kisdaroczi wrote:
>> Am Montag 11 Oktober 2010, 21:10:14 schrieb Gilles Chanteperdrix:
>>> Peter Pastor wrote:
>>>> Hey Gilles,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the hint. I "fixed" this problem by loading the nvidia driver
>>>> (instead of nv) as default. Now the graphic cards uses IRQ 24 which does
>>>> not collide with IRQ 11 of the CAN bus card (see attached lspci.txt).
>>>>
>>>> The only other device that uses IRQ 11 is
>>>> # 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port
>>>> [8086:3406] (rev 13)
>>>>
>>>> But I guess that is ok, is it ? I checked the FAQs and went through the
>>>> list but I feel I can't do much. I will try a few things and disable
>>>> everything that is unneeded. The FAQ list also suggests to enable
>>>> CONFIG_PCI_MSI which is disabled right now. What would now be a
>>>> reasonable thing to do ?
>>> Keep PCI_MSI disabled. The FAQ is wrong and should be fixed.
>>
>> Hi Gilles and Jan,
>>
>> what is wrong with PCI_MSI? In late june there was a discussion on this list 
>> about irq-sharing [1]. Jan's statement at the end of the discussion:
>>> The better news is that modern hardware now more and more provides MSI,
>>> and that's an inherently unshared IRQ source.
>>
>> We consider ordering custom built pcie boards (msi) to solve the irq-sharing 
>> problem i have with my pci board. Bad idea ?
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> [1] https://mail.gna.org/public/xenomai-help/2010-06/msg00194.html
> 
> The patch Adeos as-is does not support MSI. See the thread here:
> https://mail.gna.org/public/adeos-main/2008-08/threads.html
> 

Provided the chipset allows fast PCI config access, this should still be
fixable. Will see if I can find some cycles for this.

Moreover, there is long-term hope: MSI-X does not suffer from that need
to interact with shared resources - for a good reasons: the old way
scales poorly.

Jan

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