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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Natalie Protasevich <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:44:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wt2ih7i0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702160015.04453.lenb@kernel.org> (Len Brown's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:15:04 -0500")

Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> writes:

> This code makes simple systems complex:
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:04.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
>
> The same code was already removed from x86_64

By itself I don't think we are going to observe any real problems
with this patch.

However if we are going to be serious about this we need to do a
few more things.

- kill iopaic_renumber_irq.
- Increase NR_IRQS.

We will still be limited to about 208 interrupts in use at one
time, but we can allow more irq sources to be described.

This reminds me.  I really need to dig up my patch that doesn't
allocate a vector for an irq until request irq time.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16  5:15 [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression Len Brown
2007-02-16  7:44 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-02-16  9:21   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16  9:51 ` [PATCH] i386 irq: Kill NR_IRQ_VECTORS and increase NR_IRQS Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-16 10:15   ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-16 10:33     ` Eric W. Biederman

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