On 08/08/17 14:25, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 08/08/2017 05:48 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> 08/07/17 7:19 PM >>> >>> More than once, we've discussed freeing up the legacy PIC range of >>> vectors, and freeing up the unallocated vectors in 0xfx. >> And that's something I would prefer over the change proposed here, >> albeit I realize that the amount of vectors to recover isn't that large. > That would only net us 32 vectors at the most. That probably wouldn't be > sufficient in many cases where we are currently having vector shortage. > Unfortunately I don't have access to my failing system to say how may > vectors I was short but I believe it was more than that.
Indeed, which is why I haven't actually undertaken the work. It doesn't come close to solving the problem. > (I am also not sure I understand what is meant by "freeing". Where are > they going?) By "freeing", I mean "available for general irq use" rather than being reserved and unused in the system. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel