Re: [PATCH] X86: Change the default value of nr_irqs from 32 to NR_IRQs

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com> wrote:
> From: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:49:37 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] X86:  Change the default value of nr_irqs from 32 to NR_IRQs
>
> If the number of discovered IRQs is suspiciously low, this patch causes the number reported to default to NR_IRQS, rather than 32.  NR_IRQS has already been defined to be a sensible value for the current system (in particular, at least 224 when paravirtualisation is involved).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> index 30ff794..11bffa1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> @@ -3632,7 +3632,7 @@ int __init probe_nr_irqs(void)
>
>        /* something wrong ? */
>        if (nr < 32)
> -               nr = 32;
> +               nr = NR_IRQS;
>
>        return nr;
>  }
> --
if only one ioapic, nr will be 24<<1, you will get 48. Does pv has io apic ?

YH