linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch Part1 V1 00/30] use irqdomain to dynamically allocate IRQ for IOAPIC pin

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2014 08:01:47 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
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	sfi-devel@...plefirmware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch Part1 V1 00/30] use irqdomain to dynamically allocate
 IRQ for IOAPIC pin

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On x86 platforms, IRQ number are statically allocated to IOAPIC pins at boot.
> There are two issues with this design. First it causes trouble to IOAPIC
> hotplug because we need to allocate a block of IRQ numbers for each IOAPIC.
> Second it may waste IRQ nubmers even if some IOAPIC pins are not used because
> IRQ numbers are statically assigned.
>
> This patchset tries to enable dynamic IRQ number allocation for IOAPIC
> by adopting the irqdomain framework, it solves the two issues mentioned
> above. It also simplifies the IOAPIC driver by consolidating ways to
> program IOAPIC pins with the irqdomain map interface.
>
> We will enhance the IOAPIC driver core to support ACPI based IOAPIC hotplug
> once the IOAPIC driver has been converted to irqdomain.
>
> This patchset applies to v3.15-rc4-260-g38583f095c5a and has been tested
> on a two socket 64 bit Intel platforms with:
> 1) ACPI and mpparse enabled (boot successfully)
> 2) Mpparse enabled with ACPI disabled (boot successfully)
> 3) ACPI enabled with Mpparse disabled (boot successfully)

Great. I don't need to look into using irqdomain for x86 by myself.

Thomas put some irq clean up patches in tip irq branch.

Can you rebase your irqdomain/for x86 on top of that?
Also would be better if you can put your patches in git branch.

Thanks

Yinghai
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