linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] x86, irq: support ioapic device hotplug for x86

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Message-ID: <20120224085148.138c08d8@jbarnes-desktop>
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:51:48 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] x86, irq: support ioapic device hotplug for x86

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:48:46 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hi, Thomas
> 
> Current x86 code does not support iapic hotplug yet.
> 
> This patcheset will try to pre-reserve irq block in allocated_irqs bitmap.
> for hot add ioapic controller. also record irq_base in gsi_config, so later
> could use it to convert gsi to irq for pci device using that ioapic controller.
> 
> need to update x86/irq to support realloc_irq after those bit are pre-reserved.
> 
> It is tested with pci remove/rescan method plus some test stubs.
> 
> Please review them.

Suresh or Matthew may be interested in this patchset as well, and it
should go via -tip.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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