[openib-general] has anyone tried MSI-X on Opteron?
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Fri Jan 14 07:17:13 PST 2005
Eric> A HT interrupt message is a write cycle to a an address in
Eric> the range 0xFDF8000000 - 0xFDF8FFFFFF. So a PCI write cycle
Eric> getting turned into a HT write cycle is useful behavior.
Eric> The question is can we generate an appropriate write to
Eric> those addresses from the card, and will the 8131 filter a
Eric> write to those addresses.
I'd be surprised if a bridge would turn a PCI cycle into an HT write
with IntrInfo present instead of byte enables though. (Unless the
bridge knew about MSI)
- Roland
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