Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:03:29 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS |
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* Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:11 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > [...] > > Ben I didn't manage to get a look over ACPI related changes > > (ie to find the reason why the kernel is able to reveal 5 IO-APICs > > now > [...] > > I was mistaken; that *isn't* a recent change. A default RHEL 5 > kernel (based on 2.6.18) also finds 5 IOAPICs.
yes - it's simply a box with a lot of IO-APICs. That's not bad at all, it spreads out IRQ processing amongst devices.
Ingo
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