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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make NR_IRQS on 32bit is same to 64bit
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 23:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:52 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Clean-up sidenote: i think we can now remove the VISWS #ifdef portion
> > > >> for good? Mind sending a patch for that too?
> > > > 
> > > > could remove CONFIG_PARAVIRT too.. Jeremy?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This seems like a bad idea, especially for the embedded guys.
> > 
> > I'd actually really like to see us move to dynamically-allocated irq 
> > tables as they're currently huge. But I haven't dug into it deeply 
> > enough to see what sort of gotchas are involved.
> 
> sparseirq (== dynamic IRQ tables) is all implemented already, and most 
> of the details except the final feature-enabler are upstream already.

Thanks for the pointer, I'd missed this going by.

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