"Natalie Protasevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we counted them in the order of 1400 external IRQs (actual > ioapics/slots plus possible on-card bridges), and yes numbers for used > IRQs were close to 250. Actual customer configurations could've big > bigger, I don't have such data. > >> In particular is a large NR_IRQS plus dynamic vector allocation >> sufficient for all cases you know about? > > Yes, since x86_64 boxes never had a problem once dynamic vectors were > incorporated.
I was wondering if we could avoid making the vectors per cpu and still be in good shape on x86_32. From your description it looks like we can't quite support everything on x86_32 if we don't do the per cpu vector thing. However we will likely have everything interesting supported. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/