Re: [PATCH 0/8] git pull request for tip/tracing/core

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> 
> Itanium processor has 240 vectors for external interrupts and
> has a mechanism to classifies them to 16 priority classes. The
> ia64 linux limits maximum nested interrupts depth to 16 using
> this mechanism.

Then 1000, should be more than enough ;-)

Thanks for the info,

-- Steve

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