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

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Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:27:45 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 17:00 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > 
> > so we have one list to map domain/bus/dev/func to bits [31,12] in irq ?
> > 
> 
> That works, although having a more generic allocation mechanism which
> isn't so tied to MSI-X would make more sense.

None of that should be related to the linux interrupt number.

Ben.


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