From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:07:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D5F2EC.5000402@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ire2e20p.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So I propose we remove all assumptions from the code that we actually
> have an array of irqs. That will allow for irq_desc to be dynamically
> allocated instead of statically allocated saving memory and reducing
> kernel complexity.
>
Sounds good to me. In Xen we have 1024 event channels which we need to
map down into a smaller irq. Aside from the complexity of maintaining a
mapping table, that's not a huge issue for now, but when we start
exposing pci devices to guests it all becomes more complex. The ideal
for us is to simply use event channel == irq, which this would allow.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-16 12:10 [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-16 15:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-16 15:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 15:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 21:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-19 0:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-27 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 0:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 8:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-28 13:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-28 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28 13:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-01 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-16 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-02-16 19:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 19:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-16 19:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 19:52 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-16 20:59 ` Russell King
2007-02-16 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 1:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-17 4:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 9:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 6:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 20:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 9:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 3:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-17 8:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-17 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-18 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-18 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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