Re: [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Increase NR_IRQS Kconfig maximum to 32768

2010-02-01 Thread Gabriel Paubert
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

Re: [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Increase NR_IRQS Kconfig maximum to 32768

2010-02-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 10:09 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: 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

[PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Increase NR_IRQS Kconfig maximum to 32768

2010-01-31 Thread Anton Blanchard
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

Re: [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Increase NR_IRQS Kconfig maximum to 32768

2010-01-31 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 22:14 +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