linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:58:46 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:36 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >> ...
> >>
> >>>> +static unsigned int kstat_irqs_legacy[NR_IRQS_LEGACY][NR_CPUS];
> >>> Do these need to be 32-bit?  Maybe they'll fit in 16-bit, dunno.
> >>>
> >> struct irq_desc {
> >>         unsigned int            irq;
> >> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
> >>         struct list_head        list;
> >>         struct list_head        hash_entry;
> >>         struct timer_rand_state *timer_rand_state;
> >>         unsigned int            *kstat_irqs;
> > 
> > That doesn't address my question.
> > 
> > The above array can be very large.  Can we halve its size by using
> > 16-bit quantities?  Will this code ever encounter IRQ numbers larger
> > than 65536?
> > 
> 
> NR_CPUS=4096, NR_IRQS_LEGACY=16, and that array will be 256k bytes
> 
> later could change that alloc_bootmem, so NR_CPUS will be replaced to nr_cpu_ids

Do the entries in that array need to be 32-bit?
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