Re: [patch 0/3] 2.6.17 radix-tree: updates and lockless

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21T01:33:49Z

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:07 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > No, our hardware interrupt numbers are an encoded form containing the
> > geographical location of the device :) so they are 24 bits at least (and
> > we have a platform coming where they can be 64 bits).
>
> PICs with build in GPSses? And I thought we had weird hardware....

hehehe :) Well, domain/bus/slot number if you prefer but yeah, a GPS
would be much more cool !

Ben.