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sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes

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Impact: new feature

Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.

To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.

When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).

This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Yinghai Lu
2008-12-05 18:58:31 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 218d11a8b0
commit 0b8f1efad3
23 changed files with 659 additions and 173 deletions
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#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
extern int nr_irqs;
/*
* These correspond to the IORESOURCE_IRQ_* defines in
* linux/ioport.h to select the interrupt line behaviour. When