The following patchset is against 2.6.17-rc6-mm2.
It was the only easy place I could get everyones work who has been
touching relevant code.
The primary aim of this patch is to remove maintenances problems caused
by the irq infrastructure. The two big issues I address are an
artificially small cap on the number of irqs, and that MSI assumes
vector == irq. My primary focus is on x86_64 but I have touched
other architectures where necessary to keep them from breaking.
- To increase the number of irqs I modify the code to look at
the (cpu, vector) pair instead of just looking at the vector.
With a large number of irqs available systems with a large irq
count no longer need to compress their irq numbers to fit.
Removing a lot of brittle special cases.
For acpi guys the result is that irq == gsi.
- Addressing the fact that MSI assumes irq == vector takes a few more
patches. But suffice it to say when I am done none of the generic
irq code even knows what a vector is.
In quick testing on a large Unisys x86_64 machine we stumbled over at
least one driver that assumed that NR_IRQS could always fit into an 8
bit number. This driver is clearly buggy today. But this has become
a class of bugs that it is now much easier to hit.
I've done my best but if this patchset wasn't perfect it won't
surprise me. But I'm pretty certain I have succeeded in decoupling
any fixes should be small and well contained.
Eric
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