[PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Increase NR_IRQS Kconfig maximum to 32768
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Feb 1 07:35:24 EST 2010
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 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:
>
> struct irq_map_entry irq_map[NR_IRQS];
We could dynamically allocate that one.
Cheers,
Ben.
> We format /proc/interrupts correctly with the previous changes:
>
> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5
> 286: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 516: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 16689: 1833 0 0 0 0 0
> 17157: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 17158: 319 0 0 0 0 0
> 25092: 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-cpumask/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-cpumask.orig/arch/powerpc/Kconfig 2010-01-31 15:07:11.707211107 +1100
> +++ linux-cpumask/arch/powerpc/Kconfig 2010-01-31 21:52:39.999711689 +1100
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config IRQ_PER_CPU
>
> config NR_IRQS
> int "Number of virtual interrupt numbers"
> - range 32 512
> + range 32 32768
> default "512"
> help
> This defines the number of virtual interrupt numbers the kernel
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