Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 13/14] xen: events: do not workaroundtoo-small nr_irqs

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Mar 10 2011 - 00:41:46 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:41:25PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This workaround was somewhat useful prior to the introduction of the
> core irq allocator and 026c9d2d0d75 "xen: events: allocate GSIs and
> dynamic IRQs from separate IRQ ranges." but should be unnecessary now.

OK, so you tested this under QEMU with Xen + Dom0? A simple one CPU
config was what we had trouble with.
>
> If nr_irqs turns out to be too small under Xen then we should increase
> nr_irqs rather than working around the core allocator in this way.
>
> In my configuration NR_IRQS ends up being 2304 with nr_irq_gsi 272
> which is sufficient.
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