[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 0/3] refactor irq allocation in ice
Tony Nguyen
anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com
Wed Apr 27 00:24:00 UTC 2022
On 12/21/2021 10:21 PM, Michal Swiatkowski wrote:
> The ice driver uses the old PCI irq reseveration API. Change the ice
> driver to use the current API.
>
> Implement a fallback mechanism where, if the driver can't reserve the
> maximum number of interrupts, it will limit the number of queues or
> disable capabilities.
A very similar implementation was already rejected by netdev [1]. I
believe there's kernel work being done for dynamic MSIX allocations
which is the route we should look to take on this (when it's completed).
Thanks,
Tony
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210113234226.3638426-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com/
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