Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:02:36 -0500 | From | "Protasevich, Natalie" <> |
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> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Protasevich, Natalie wrote: > > > our systems we are just about to use up all 224 interrupts, but not > > quiet. > > I have to mention that as far as I know Zwane is about to > release his > > vector sharing mechanism, he had it implemented and working > for i386 > > (I tested it on ES7000 successfully, by itself and combined with > > compression patch too), and was planning implementing it > for x86_64. I > > am officially volunteering for testing it in its present state, for > > both > > i386 and x86_64 (I can still do this on our systems by removing the > > IRQ compression code :), hope this will help Zwane and Andi > to release > > it as soon as possible. > > I added some of the suggestions brought forward (dynamically > allocated IDTs, percpu IDT) last night, all that's left is > MSI, which does work right now, but gets all its vectors > allocated on the first irq handling domain. I should be done > soon, time permitting.
Zwane, please let me know when I can try it on ES7000, even work in progress if you need it (see above about volunteering :)
Regards, --Natalie
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