Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 23:13:18 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org>,
        Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <venki@google.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for multiple MSI on x86
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> You said MSI-X has replaced MSI, which is true of course but doesn't
> change older devices in the field.

I know, but not for the price of nested loops over nr of cpus with
locks held and interrupts disabled implemented with a metric sh*tload
of horrible code.

Thanks,

	tglx
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