Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 01/10] xen: remap GSIs as pirqs whenrunning as initial domain

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Wed Oct 06 2010 - 12:50:38 EST


> > > +void __init xen_setup_pirqs(void)
> > > +{
> > > + int irq;
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> > > + int nr_ioapics = 1;
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Should this be defined in a header instead? Was this nr_ioapics==1
> > meant to fall in the '0 == nr_ioapics' to setup the first sixteen
> > irqs?
> >
> > Is CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC more appropiate than CONFIG_SMP?
>
> I think it was supposed to fix a compilation error in case
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is not set, so that in both cases in which an ioapic
> is not present in the system or the ioapic support is not compiled in
> the kernel we would fall in the '0 == nr_ioapics' code path.

That is what I thought, but nr_ioapics is set to one, so how do
we fall in 0 == 1 code path?

> So I guess the right thing to do here would be to replace CONFIG_SMP
> with CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC.
> I don't think that it is worth moving these three lines into an header
> file.
OK.
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