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    x86/MSI: Support multiple MSIs in presense of IRQ remapping · 51906e77
    Alexander Gordeev authored
    The MSI specification has several constraints in comparison with
    MSI-X, most notable of them is the inability to configure MSIs
    independently. As a result, it is impossible to dispatch
    interrupts from different queues to different CPUs. This is
    largely devalues the support of multiple MSIs in SMP systems.
    
    Also, a necessity to allocate a contiguous block of vector
    numbers for devices capable of multiple MSIs might cause a
    considerable pressure on x86 interrupt vector allocator and
    could lead to fragmentation of the interrupt vectors space.
    
    This patch overcomes both drawbacks in presense of IRQ remapping
    and lets devices take advantage of multiple queues and per-IRQ
    affinity assignments.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8bd86ff56b5fc118257436768aaa04489ac0a4c.1353324359.git.agordeev@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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