Re: [PATCH] x86_64 irq: reuse vector for set_xxx_irq_affinity in phys flat mode

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:32:57AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai.lu@amd.com> writes:
> 
> > 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>
> 
> YH.  I think the concept is sound.  I don't think this is a bug fix, just
> an optimization so this may not be 2.6.19 material.  But we are thrashing
> things so much it may make sense to include it, and it likely to keeps
> us from running into problems, so it can be called a bug preventative :)
>...

Is this patch intended as fix for the 2.6.19-rc regression described 
in [1]?

> Eric

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/21/227

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