Re: [patch 1/1] Proposed: Let's not waste precious IRQs...

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 15:29:36 EST


On Friday 20 May 2005 7:45 am, Ashok Raj wrote:
> have you taken a look a the Vector Sharing Patch posted by Kaneshige for IA64?

Vector sharing has a performance cost, so we should avoid it when
we can.

I think you should bounds-check the gsi_to_irq[] references. When
you finally get a machine with GSI values larger than MAX_GSI_NUM,
things will start failing mysteriously as you corrupt things after
the gsi_to_irq[] array.
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