Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:11:06 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silly IRQ allocation on Dell 1950 Message-ID: <XFMail.20061102101106.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0611020935q44bcd08dxe91deb6e6e7a5fe5@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 02-Nov-2006 Jack Vogel wrote: > On 11/2/06, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: >> This is typical Dell, and it gets even worse if you have a laptop. >> Imagine every PCI device being on the sole interrupt line that is routed >> on the motherboard. Growing MSI support would get around this for bce >> and many other devices. >> >> Scott > > Well, guess we need stronger fertilizer so it grows faster :) > > Seriously though, MSI implementation is happening. The em driver wants > it also :) Yeah, I stuck a dual-port Intel gigabit NIC into one of the PCI-Ex slots, and it got assigned IRQs 16 and 17. So that's three gigabit interfaces on IRQ 16. I moved the Intel NIC to the other slot, and it still got assigned the same IRQs. Wonderful. John
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.20061102101106.jdp>