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SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386 IOAPIC: de-fang IRQ compression

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:26:49 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > * Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > So while the irq compression code on i386 should really
> > > be deleted -- even before merging the x86_64 irq-overhaul,
> > > this patch simply disables it on all high volume systems
> > > to avoid problems #1 and #2 on most all i386 systems.
> > >
> > > A large system with pin numbers >=64 will still have compression
> > > to conserve limited IRQ numbers for sparse IOAPICS. However,
> > > the vast majority of the planet, those with only pin numbers < 64
> > > will use an identity GSI -> IRQ mapping.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> >
> > thanks for the patch and the extensive description. I've applied this to
> > x86.git.
>
> Len applied it to his tree too.

Len, i think this belongs into x86.git a bit more (especially with the
unification activities going on all around the tree) - do you agree?
Andrew, i'd suggest to apply a reverted patch to between git.acpi and
git.x86 until this gets sorted out.

Ingo


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