On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:14:03PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > With dynamic irq descriptors the overhead of a large NR_IRQS is much lower > than it used to be. With more MSI-X capable adapters and drivers exploiting > multiple vectors we may as well allow the user to increase it beyond the > current maximum of 512. > > 32768 seems large enough that we'd never have to bump it again (although I bet > my prediction is horribly wrong). It boot tests OK and the vmlinux footprint > increase is only around 500kB due to:
Only 1/2 MB? I'm running Linux on 12 year old PPC machines which have 16MB or RAM (ok, they are still running an old kernel, but a few patches like this and they wont't even boot). The kernels I have are well below 1MB, code+data+bss. Yes it is configurable, thanks, and 64 is enough for these machines (8259 plus an MPIC), so it's not that crucial. What I object to is calling 1/2MB negligible. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev