Re: [RFC 0/4] Introduce a mechanism to allocate PCI IRQ on demand

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 09:35:51 EST


On Thu, 7 May 2015, Jiang Liu wrote:

> This patch set introduces a mechanism to allocate PCI IRQ on demand and
> free it when not used anymore by hooking pci_device_probe() and
> pci_device_remove().
>
> It will be used to track IOAPIC pin usage on x86 so we could support
> IOAPIC hot-removal.

Bjorn, any opinion on this?

Thanks,

tglx
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