Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:19:06 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Mayer <ajm@sgi.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
       Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: resize NR_IRQS for large machines
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* Alan Mayer <ajm@sgi.com> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: resize NR_IRQS for large machines
> 
> From: Alan Mayer <ajm@sgi.com>
> 
> On machines with very large numbers of cpus, tables that are 
> dimensioned by NR_IRQS get very large, especially the irq_desc table.  
> They are also very sparsely used.  When the cpu count is > 
> MAX_IO_APICS, use MAX_IO_APICS to set NR_IRQS, otherwise use NR_CPUS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Mayer <ajm@sgi.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

thanks, applied. I suspect this can wait until .26, as there appears to 
be a number of other patches that you need to get these boxes running on 
vanilla, right?

	Ingo
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