Re: FW: [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression

From: Natalie Protasevich
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 04:42:16 EST


l> From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:22 AM
To: Protasevich, Natalie
Cc: Len Brown; Andi Kleen; lkml - Kernel Mailing List;
linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: irq: Kill IRQ compression

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> By itself I don't think we are going to observe any real problems
> with this patch.
>
> However if we are going to be serious about this we need to do a
> few more things.
>
> - kill ioapic_renumber_irq.

Looking closer ioapic_renumber_irq does not appear to be an irq
compress thing. Rather it appears to be a work around for a weird
acpi implementation where gsi 0 - 15 are not the ISA irqs.

Natalie is my reading of the code there correct?

Yes, indeed.


If so keeping ioapic_renumber_irq makes sense. Although giving
it a name that suggests it is working around weird implementation
details would be good.

Sure. I think it was originally renumber_gsi something, but Len had to
change it so it sounds more explicit as familiar "IRQ".
--Natalie

Eric

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