Messages in this thread | | | From | Pingfan Liu <> | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2018 17:23:48 +0800 | Subject | Re: question about the limited interrupt vector resource on a single cpu |
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Pingfan Liu wrote: > >> For x86, there is around 200 vectors left for external device on a >> single logic cpu. >> >> Is there any case that we exhaust them in real world, and is it worth to fix? > > Exhaustion is unlikely, but how would you fix it? The vector space per CPU > is limited by hardware not software. > Playing some trick on iommu, we can use it to identify the irq requester.
Regards, Pingfan
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