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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2009-10-13 19:45:03 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-10-30 17:21:31 +1100
commitcd015707176820b86d07b5dffdecfefdd539a497 (patch)
treec71a90d99a1dee4d5a24f883230c201c43cd8c0d /arch/powerpc/Kconfig
parent750ab112919220a1d14491ae210b689bcb7d6d66 (diff)
powerpc: Enable sparse irq_descs on powerpc
Defining CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ enables generic code that gets rid of the static irq_desc array, and replaces it with an array of pointers to irq_descs. It also allows node local allocation of irq_descs, however we currently don't have the information available to do that, so we just allocate them on all on node 0. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
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@@ -377,6 +377,19 @@ config IRQ_ALL_CPUS
CPU. Generally saying Y is safe, although some problems have been
reported with SMP Power Macintoshes with this option enabled.
+config SPARSE_IRQ
+ bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
+ default y
+ help
+ This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro
+ kernels that want to define a high CONFIG_NR_CPUS value but still
+ want to have low kernel memory footprint on smaller machines.
+
+ ( Sparse IRQs can also be beneficial on NUMA boxes, as they spread
+ out the irq_desc[] array in a more NUMA-friendly way. )
+
+ If you don't know what to do here, say Y.
+
config NUMA
bool "NUMA support"
depends on PPC64