Re: [PATCH 0/4] irq: change irq_desc and kstat_irq_legacy to variable sized arrays

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> 
> The following patches change irq_desc and kstat_irq_legacy into
> variable sized arrays based on nr_cpu_ids when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y.
> 
>     irq: change references from NR_IRQS to nr_irqs
>     irq: allocate irq_desc_ptrs array based on nr_irqs
>     irq: initialize nr_irqs based on nr_cpu_ids
>     kstat: modify kstat_irqs_legacy to be variable sized
> 
> Based on: tip/cpus4096 @ v2.6.28-6140-g36c401a
> 
> (Ingo - I will push these to your tip/cpus4096 branch via my cpus4096-for-ingo
> 	git tree.)

Thanks - please send a pull request when you feel good about them.

The changes look good to me.

> Affects of the SPARSE changes on NR_CPUS values.
> 
>     1 - 128-defconfig (non-SPARSE)
>     2 - 4k-defconfig (non-SPARSE)
>     3 - 4k-defconfig (SPARSE)
> 
> ====== Data
> 
>       .1.        .2.        .3.    ..final..
>   1114112          .   -1114112      .  -100%  irq_desc(.data.cacheline_aligned)
>    208896     -69632    -138752    512   -99%  irq_cfgx(.data)
>     34816          .     -34816      .  -100%  irq_timer_state(.bss)
>     17480          .     -17480      .  -100%  per_cpu__kstat(.data.percpu)
>         0          .      +4096   4096      .  irq_desc_legacy(.data.cacheline_aligned)

Impressive!

If i remember your previous figures correctly we've got about +4MB of 
memory bloat at 4K CPUs, that is now down to 3MB total?

	Ingo