Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:23:47 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: make NR_IRQS on 32bit is same to 64bit |
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* Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:52 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > >> > > >> Clean-up sidenote: i think we can now remove the VISWS #ifdef portion > > >> for good? Mind sending a patch for that too? > > > > > > could remove CONFIG_PARAVIRT too.. Jeremy? > > > > > > > This seems like a bad idea, especially for the embedded guys. > > I'd actually really like to see us move to dynamically-allocated irq > tables as they're currently huge. But I haven't dug into it deeply > enough to see what sort of gotchas are involved.
sparseirq (== dynamic IRQ tables) is all implemented already, and most of the details except the final feature-enabler are upstream already.
Ingo
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