Re: [PATCH] x86: make NR_IRQS on 32bit is same to 64bit

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:10 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Impact: so NR_IRQS is bigger enough for system with lots of apic/pins
> 
> Now: if IO_APIC is there, will have big NR_IRQS
> 
> otherwise still use 224
[...]

I have no idea whether this is useful, but it doesn't solve the general
problem that probe_nr_irqs() can return a value > NR_IRQS.  So far as I
can see it can return up to 2 * 24 * MAX_IO_APICS which may be greater
than NR_VECTORS + (32 * max(MAX_IO_APICS, NR_CPUS)).

Ben.

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