RE: [PATCH][RFC] Vector sharing

[Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your comments.

> An other or complementary way is to attach a vector only for interrupt
> lines witch are used, PCI slots have 4 interrupt lines but only 1 or
> sometime 2 are used by adapters.

I agree with attaching a vector only for interrupt lines which are used.
Your patch stops the waste of the vector resource, and it becomes difficult
for the lack of vectors to happen. I think we can also do this by using
Bjorn's
ACPI IRQ cleanup patch. To tell the truth, I also had a same idea before.

However, this idea doesn't solve the problem completely. The problem will
happen in the following case:

	o many PCI adapters have 2 or more functions
	o machine has more than 184 PCI slots in the same domain

So, I think vector sharing is necessary to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of
> Jean-Francois Neyroud
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:25 PM
> To: Kenji Kaneshige
> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Vector sharing
>
>
>
>
> Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm trying to make a patch that allows device vectors to be shared by
> >multiple interrupt sources. This patch enables ia64 linux to boot on
> >the machine that has single vector number space and many device
> >interrupt sources (more than 184).
> >
> >I
> >
> Hi Kenji,
>
> An other or complementary way is to attach a vector only for interrupt
> lines witch are used, PCI slots have 4 interrupt lines but only 1 or
> sometime 2 are used by adapters.
>
> Find hereafter a patch tested on IA64 platform.
>
> Jean-Francois.
>
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