From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261466AbVFHRfn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:35:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261464AbVFHRfn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:35:43 -0400 Received: from fmr20.intel.com ([134.134.136.19]:5805 "EHLO orsfmr005.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261398AbVFHRfW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:35:22 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [Penance PATCH] PCI: clean up the MSI code a bit Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:34:10 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Penance PATCH] PCI: clean up the MSI code a bit Thread-Index: AcVsTQ2W6ZYujb+bTUyeSqdsTTQzXQAAHQXg From: "Nguyen, Tom L" To: "Grant Grundler" , "Andi Kleen" Cc: "Greg KH" , , , "Roland Dreier" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Andrew Vasquez" , "Jeff Garzik" , "David S. Miller" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jun 2005 17:34:12.0521 (UTC) FILETIME=[48D7C190:01C56C50] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:15 AM Grant Grundler wrote: > > I disagree it should stay as it is. Basically you are trading > > a bit less complexity in Infiniband now for a lot of code everywhere. > >It's not just infiniband. It's tg3 and e1000 as well. MSI-X will outpace MSI in future. In my opinion, enabling MSI by default is a short-term solution. Again, this is just my opinion. Thanks, Long