Linus,
When we were putting SMP on NetWare, we discovered that using the IOAPIC
hardware for UP systems was almost 4% faster than the 8259-PIC for LAN
drivers (since it has a dedicated ICC bus to pass interrupt messages to
a local APIC). Something to consider....
:-)
Jeff
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000706123221.6690B-100000@thing2.opinicus.com>,
> William Montgomery <william@opinicus.com> wrote:
> >
> >So how can my driver my driver work fine in UP and not in SMP when
> >using the pci_read_config* calls?
>
> On UP, we don't generally use the IO-APIC and it's more advanced irq
> routing features. So on a regular UP compile, there will be a 1:1
> relationship between what the device _thinks_ the irq is, and what it
> truly is..
>
> >My workaround is to use
> > struct pci_dev *dev;
> >and when pci_find_device() inits dev, I use dev->irq instead of
> > pci_read_config_byte(dev, PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, &irq);
> >
> >Can anyone explain this?
>
> The above is not a work-around. It's the way you are supposed to work.
>
> In fact, drivers should generally _never_ look at the "generic" part of
> the PCI config space, because that part has been parsed for them by the
> kernel, which does a whole lot better job of it than most drivers can
> ever do. This includes more than just figuring out what the _real_
> interrupt routing is. The generic PCI layer does a good job of figuring
> out what resources the device has, of what type they are, and how large
> they are. And it enables them correctly. Something that is usually a
> lot more code than is good for you in a regular driver.
>
> For example, on multi-bus systems (especially 64-bit sparcs with
> multiple PCI buses mapped in strange ways), you should not do the config
> byte read to figure out where your memory aperture is: you should use
> the data in "struct pci_dev *dev" instead, notably you should use the
> functions especially created for them: things like
>
> start = pci_resource_start(dev,nr);
>
> to get at the resource start address. Because again, as with the
> interrupt number, the device itself does not know what the global system
> mapping is (it so happens that on PC's it's a 1:1 mapping, but that's
> not always the case).
>
> Linus
>
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