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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: increase NR_IRQS and nr_irqs
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:47:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091228094707.GH24690@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B347AEE.6030705@kernel.org>


* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> have a system with lots of igb and ixgbe, when iov/vf are enabled for
> them, we hit the limit of 3064.
> 
> so try to increase NR_IRQS and nr_irqs to about 8000 and 6000.
> for that system.

could you please provide before/after .data size analysis, expected dynamic 
allocation overhead difference (if any), etc. - so that we can see whether 
there's any (and if yes, how much) cost due to the bumping of the limit.

Also, instead of just upping the limit to a new random limit that works on 
that testbox, could we put some more thought into how much we want to increase 
it, and stay at least 2-3 years ahead of the expected hardware curve?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-28  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25  8:42 Yinghai Lu
2009-12-28  9:47 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-12-29  5:08   ` [PATCH -v2] " Yinghai Lu
2009-12-30 12:21     ` [tip:x86/apic] x86: Increase " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04  3:06     ` [PATCH -v2] x86: increase " Jesse Brandeburg
2010-01-04  3:20       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04  6:56         ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 16:18           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 18:40             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:04               ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:14                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:01             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:09               ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:35                 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:45                   ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-04 19:50                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05  0:05                       ` Suresh Siddha
2010-01-05  0:16                         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-05  5:30                           ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Reclaim IDT vectors 0x20-0x2f tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:48                   ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 20:06                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 20:14                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 20:33                         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:10                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 21:20                             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:33                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 22:01                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:03                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 23:32                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:38                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 23:42                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:49                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 23:59                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-05  5:30                                   ` [tip:x86/apic] x86, apic: Don't waste a vector to improve vector spread tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 20:08                   ` Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04  6:58         ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: get more exact nr_irqs Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 16:55           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:03             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 19:16               ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:30                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04 19:47                   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 20:05                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 21:50                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-04  6:59         ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors Yinghai Lu

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