Re: [PATCH] x86: fix probe_nr_irqs for xen

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 19:33:29 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:
> otherwise Xen is _completely_ unusable with 5 or more VCPUs.
> ( when !CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ)
>
> based on Alex's patch
>
> also add +1 offset after redir_entries
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Looks good to me. We can fix this in a better way later.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> @@ -3625,16 +3625,21 @@ int __init probe_nr_irqs(void)
> {
> int idx;
> int nr = 0;
> +#ifndef CONFIG_XEN
> + int nr_min = 32;
> +#else
> + int nr_min = NR_IRQS;
> +#endif
>
> for (idx = 0; idx < nr_ioapics; idx++)
> - nr += io_apic_get_redir_entries(idx);
> + nr += io_apic_get_redir_entries(idx) + 1;
>
> /* double it for hotplug and msi and nmi */
> nr <<= 1;
>
> /* something wrong ? */
> - if (nr < 32)
> - nr = 32;
> + if (nr < nr_min)
> + nr = nr_min;
>
> return nr;
> }
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