Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> It would, however, be a good idea if IOAPICs had their numbers assigned
>>> at detection time, as opposed to when the interrupt is registered, thus
>>> making it a stable number for a single boot, at least.  The same is
>>> probably true for MSI(-X); we could assign it a range of numbers when
>>> the device is enumerated (as opposed to when a driver is activated), but
>>> I don't know to what extent that is likely to cause more troubles than
>>> it solves.
>> how to find the range for MSIX, one device/func may need a lot. for example, niu driver could use 20 MSI-X for one port. (one dev/func)
>> some could use 256. we only know that when driver is loaded.
>> So as Eric said, just try to use 12bits (4k range) for them.
>>
> 
> You can know how many vectors are exported in generic code.  However,
> using 4k per should be fine.

so we have one list to map domain/bus/dev/func to bits [31,12] in irq ?

YH