Re: [git pull, take 2] x86 updates for v2.6.28, phase #9, sparse IRQ support

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Linus,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please pull the latest x86-v28-for-linus-phase9 git tree from:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sparse IRQ support - make NR_IRQS dynamic by turning it into nr_irqs, 
>>>>>> an by creating irq descriptors in a sparse way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Includes a number of dependent x86 topics: timers/hpet-percpu, IO-APIC 
>>>>>> and local APIC code unification, UV support updates.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has been cross-built on all architectures we could get crosscompilers 
>>>>>> for:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   http://www.tglx.de/autoqa/index
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It should be largely uneventful for sparse-irq unaware, non-x86 
>>>>>> architectures.
>>>>> please find updated pull request below. Relative to phase-N-1. Updates 
>>>>> from today in this class of topics:
>>>>>
>>>>>   b570868: x86: apic - unify APIC_DIVISOR
>>>>>
>>>>> And i removed:
>>>>>
>>>>>   eada62c: acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4
>>>>>
>>>>> [ Cc:-ed Yinghai for that - we can live without that patch (i.e. we at
>>>>>   most get a leak warning) and can have that via acpi.git, correct? ]
>>>> yes. we have several patches that even didn't pick up for a while.
>>>>
>>>> also please ask Linus to pull pci tree from Jesse before sparseirq.
>>>>
>>>> because we need
>>>> 	PCI: change MSI-x vector to 32bit
>>>>
>>>> in pci tree.
>>> is it absolutely needed?
>>>
>> qla2xxx with MSI-X will crash. only happend with the new card that support msi-x.
>>
>> so it is not absolutely needed.
> 
> but as Jesse noted we have:
> 
>  9e40236: pci: change msi-x vector to 32bit
> 
> included in irq/sparseirq so it should be fine and there's no dependency 
> on the PCI tree.

good. so sparseirq could be pulled before pci tree.

YH