linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] killing the NR

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Date:	Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:25:53 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing the NR_IRQS arrays.

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:41 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > So I propose we remove all assumptions from the code that we actually 
> > > have an array of irqs.  That will allow for irq_desc to be dynamically 
> > > allocated instead of statically allocated saving memory and reducing 
> > > kernel complexity.
> > 
> > hm. I'd suggest to do this without changing request_irq() - and then we 
> > could avoid the 'massive, every driver affected' change, right?
> 
> if request_irq() changes we might as well make a variant that takes a
> PCI device struct rather than a number, for the 99% of PCI drivers that
> use that.. (and then msi and other stuff becomes simpler :)

As a matter of fact, if IRQs has to be handled properly as resources of
their respective devices, I think request_irq replacement should take a
struct device...

In fact, having IRQs hanging off their respective devices would give a
proper way to access them via sysfs and implement the affinity etc...
thus providing a long term replacement for the current number based
APIs.

In addition, to facilitate the job of things like IRQ balancing daemons,
a /sys/irqs/ could be created containing symlinks to all irqs in the
system.

Ben.
 

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