Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] PCI MSI: Store the number of messages in the
	msi_desc
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 20:41 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I also think that MSI-X could be improved by changing the interface to
> do away with this msix_entry list passed in -- just allocate the irqs
> consecutively.

Apparently some drivers rely on scattered allocation of MSI-X

Ben.


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