What is Message-signaled interrupts (MSI)?
A scheme in which a device signals an interrupt by writing to a designated address. It needs no dedicated interrupt wire and lets one device have many interrupts.
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Message-signaled interrupts (MSI) in the explanations
With MSI, the device writes a designated value to an address set by the OS, and that write arrives at the CPU as an interrupt.
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