RE: [patch 1/1] Proposed: Let's not waste precious IRQs...

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> On Friday 20 May 2005 7:45 am, Ashok Raj wrote:
> > have you taken a look a the Vector Sharing Patch posted by 
> Kaneshige for IA64?
> 
> Vector sharing has a performance cost, so we should avoid it 
> when we can.
> 
> I think you should bounds-check the gsi_to_irq[] references.  
> When you finally get a machine with GSI values larger than 
> MAX_GSI_NUM, things will start failing mysteriously as you 
> corrupt things after the gsi_to_irq[] array.
>
Yes, indeed, I will do that. Next round I will submit ACPI cases for
i386 and x86_64 then, with correction above, and will start working on
the MPS cases.

Thanks,
--Natalie 
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