linux-kernel - Re: [Patch V4 00/42] use irqdomain to dynamically allocate IRQ for IOAPIC

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Date:	Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:08:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	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>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.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>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch V4 00/42] use irqdomain to dynamically allocate IRQ for
 IOAPIC

Jiang,

On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Jiang Liu 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.

I merged the whole lot. Thanks for doing this and reacting on all the
review comments. Very nice cleanup work!

Thanks,

	tglx


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