From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
NetDEV list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:48:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4245FC.7070902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B424305.7050803@kernel.org>
[Adding Suresh to the Cc: list]
On 01/04/2010 11:35 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> so we can use [0x10, 0x1f]
>
> sth like this?
>
No!!!
[0x10, 0x1f] is reserved for exceptions. We can probably get away with
stealing *one* vector... presumably at the end (0x1f). However, we can
absolutely not use the whole block: 0x10-0x13 is occupied by exceptions
we already have OS support for (#MF, #AC, #MC, and #XM), and it's pretty
much guaranteed we'll have more coming. However, growth is quite slow
and since this is a kernel-internal vector (not accessible to user
space) it is not creating an API.
In other words, we could change FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR to 0x1f, and use
it for IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR. Then use 0x20..0x2f for the legacy vectors.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-25 8:42 [PATCH] x86: increase NR_IRQS and nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
2009-12-28 9:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-29 5:08 ` [PATCH -v2] " Yinghai Lu
2009-12-30 12:21 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86: Increase " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 3:06 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: increase " Jesse Brandeburg
2010-01-04 3:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 6:56 ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 16:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 18:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:45 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-04 19:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05 0:05 ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-05 0:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-05 5:30 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Reclaim IDT vectors 0x20-0x2f tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-04 20:06 ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 20:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 20:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 21:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 22:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 23:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 23:42 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05 5:30 ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Don't waste a vector to improve vector spread tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 20:08 ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 6:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: get more exact nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 16:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 20:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 6:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Yinghai Lu
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