Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761482AbYHEXZQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:25:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751075AbYHEXZD (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:25:03 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42465 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755985AbYHEXZC (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:25:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4898DBD8.4000002@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:01:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , Dhaval Giani , Mike Travis , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v3 References: <1217732365-16595-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1217732365-16595-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 22 Yinghai Lu wrote: > Peter, Andrew, > > Please check dyn_array support for x86 > v3: split changing to nr_irqs to small patches > fix checkpatch error > reorder the patch sequence to make dyn_array support go at first > so could use that with arrays other than NR_IRQS > The real issue is that I think Eric is right: the dyn_array is an interesting data structure, but it's the wrong solution for the problem. A static array would have to be ridiculously large given the potential number of interrupt sources. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/