x86/MSI: Support multiple MSIs in presense of IRQ remapping
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: Alexander 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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