Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:15:15 +0200
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 irq: reuse vector for set_xxx_irq_affinity in phys flat mode
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 12:02:44AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> in phys flat mode, when using set_xxx_irq_affinity to irq balance from
> one cpu to another,  _assign_irq_vector will get to increase last used
> vector and get new vector. this will use up the vector if enough
> set_xxx_irq_affintiy are called. and end with using same vector in
> different cpu for different irq. (that is not what we want, we only
> want to use same vector in different cpu for different irq when more
> than 0x240 irq needed). To keep it simple, the vector should be resued
> from one cpu to another instead of getting new vector.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>

Should I give this a spin? with or without Eric's two patches?

Cheers,
Muli
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