Re: [PATCH 3/4] irq: initialize nr_irqs based on nr_cpu_ids

From: Mike Travis
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 18:20:47 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Impact: Reduce memory usage.
>>
>> This is the second half of the changes to make the irq_desc_ptrs be
>> variable sized based on nr_cpu_ids. The algorithm is the same as the
>> setting of NR_IRQS except use nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS. This is
>> only when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/irq/handle.c | 5 +++++
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> Files linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/kernel/irq/.handle.c.swp and linux-2.6-for-ingo/kernel/irq/.handle.c.swp differ
>> --- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/kernel/irq/handle.c
>> +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/kernel/irq/handle.c
>> @@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ int __init early_irq_init(void)
>> int legacy_count;
>> int i;
>>
>> + /* initialize nr_irqs based on nr_cpu_ids */
>> + nr_irqs = (8 * nr_cpu_ids) > (32 * MAX_IO_APICS) ?
>> + NR_VECTORS + (8 * nr_cpu_ids) :
>> + NR_VECTORS + (32 * MAX_IO_APICS);
>> +
>
> this will break non-x86. Please move this to the x86 early-irq-init

Ahh, I did wonder about that but the way it was defined in irq_vectors and
only this code is only for architectures that define CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y,
I thought this would duplicate that.

> function instead, and also sync it up with the current NR_IRQS sizing
> macro.

If mine is not the latest, then I think I'm a victim if git-remote update
not updating again as I did that before applying the changes and then
copied it in.

>
> I.e. do not duplicate the numbers but introduce some sort of
> max_nr_irqs(nr_cpus) define that is used to initialize NR_IRQS and also
> used later on to narrow down nr_irqs later on.

Ok, let me think about that some.
>
> Ingo

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