Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:37:47 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:39:51 -0800
> There's been a couple of different proposals to attempt to disassociate > i/o and system vectors though even attempting to guess at the number of > i/o devices is tricky. Every one of the 512 nodes on a UV system *may* > have a number of i/o devices attached to them though practically this > will be rare.
Practicality is what really matters.
We can even make the constant number a config option, so that if someone has a system that actually triggers past this limit even dist vendors can simply bump the config option value.
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