Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH][ANNOUNCE] 32way/8quad NUMAQ booting with 16 IOAPICs, 223 IRQs

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:21:42AM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> I've managed to put together a patch which allows a NUMAQ box with 
> more than 8 IOAPICs to boot, the current workaround is to force it to 8 
> or lower. This was achieved by setting up percpu idts thus allowing 
> us to implement per node vector spaces. The previous hurdle was running out 
> of vectors to assign, the current one is running out of irqs, something 
> which i'll further be looking at.
> Later on i'm planning to move to per node IDTs so that i can fix f00f 
> workaround and also save space on nodeless systems. To do this will 
> probably require early_cpu_to_node workalikes (or perhaps just use 
> logical_smp_processor_id and apic_to_node).
> Thanks to the folks at OSDL (and Mark for giving up his 4quad for so 
> long) for providing me access to the 8quad.

Running out of IRQ's? Simply jacking up NR_IRQS and HARDIRQ_BITS should
suffice if this is what I think it is.


-- wli