From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757246AbYHOI2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:28:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753011AbYHOI1z (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:27:55 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:55429 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752530AbYHOI1y (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:27:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:27:35 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/07] dyn_array/nr_irqs/sparse_irq support v10 - fix Message-ID: <20080815082735.GC4776@elte.hu> References: <1218766832-20476-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1218766832-20476-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Yinghai Lu wrote: > fix the 32bit with bigsmp > fix 64 bit with irq migration > ordering functions in io_apic_xx.c > > > to do: > merge io_apic_xx.c applied to tip/irq/sparseirq - thanks Yinghai, great work! What do you think about Eric's abstraction suggestion, that irq_desc's structure should be hidden from all but kernel/irq/* code. I think that's a sane suggestion. We do it in mm/slab.c too: no external code knows the structure of 'struct kmem_cache'. Ingo