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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>

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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



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