On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:41, Brown, Len wrote: > You are right. This code is wrong. > It makes absolutely no sense to reserve vectors in advance > for every RTE in the IOAPIC when we don't even know if they > are going to be used. > > This is clearly a holdover from the early IOAPIC/MPS days > when we were talking about 4 to 8 non-legacy RTEs. Yes I agree. A lot of the IO-APIC code could probably need some renovation. > This is where the big system vector shortage problem > should be addressed. If we go to per CPU IDTs it will be much less pressing, but still a good idea. -Andi P.S.: There seems to be a lot of confusion about all this. Maybe it would make sense to do a write up defining all the terms and stick it into Documentation/* ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
