Re: [PATCH 2/5] genirq: Allocate IRQ descriptors at boot time for !SPARSEIRQ

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jan 31 2023 - 04:18:36 EST


On Sun, Jan 29 2023 at 18:57, Shanker Donthineni wrote:

> Remove the use of statically allocated arrays for IRQ descriptors.
> Instead, allocate the necessary NR_IRQ descriptors during the boot
> time in early_irq_init().

That's not what I meant. I was pondering to remove !SPARSEIRQ
completely.

That allocation does not buy us much.

Thanks,

tglx