Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:26:22 +0300 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS |
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[Ben Hutchings - Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:15:31PM +0000] | On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:11 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | [...] | > Ben I didn't manage to get a look over ACPI related changes | > (ie to find the reason why the kernel is able to reveal 5 IO-APICs | > now | [...] | | I was mistaken; that *isn't* a recent change. A default RHEL 5 kernel | (based on 2.6.18) also finds 5 IOAPICs. | | Ben. |
So, these io-apics was there for a long time :) and recent dyn-irq tricks just bared the problem of NR_IRQS for which Yinghai already sent a patch. Lets wait until they're merged.
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