Re: [PATCH 1/5] sparse irq enabling v5

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 16:09:03 EST


On Monday, December 08, 2008 5:38 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > impact: new feature sparseirq
> >
> > add pointers array as Ingo suggesting.
> > remove dyna_array
> >
> > when sparse_irq is used (CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ), use kzalloc_node to get
> > irq_desc, irq_cfg use desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> thanks Yinghai - i've applied your four patches to tip/irq/sparseirq,
> with the changelogs below.
>
> Jesse, any objections to the MSI IRQ renumbering? It's a much saner
> static numbering scheme counting upwards, independent of NR_CPUS.

No, I like the idea of the sparse stuff. I'd like to get Matthew's ack though
too; he's been working in this area a bit lately.

Jesse
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