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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] xen: introduce PHYSDEVOP_get_nr_pirqs
 
On 31/08/2010 13:49, "Stefano Stabellini" <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Couldn't it, like, pick the smallest available? :-)
>> 
> 
> Well, it might still be useful to know the upper limit, besides linux
> tends to choose the pirq == irq and the irqs for MSIs are high.
> Xen does the same thing by the way.
Well I'm just being fussy because it's yet another irq related interface and
we seem to have so many already. Might-be-useful is different from
must-have-now, and if you are allocating pirq==irq then that allocation
strategy is not influenced by knowing nr_pirqs is it?
 -- Keir
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