Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH][ANNOUNCE] 32way/8quad NUMAQ booting with 16 IOAPICs, 223 IRQs

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Running out of IRQ's? Simply jacking up NR_IRQS and HARDIRQ_BITS should
>> suffice if this is what I think it is.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:11:44AM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> I'll have to see what repurcussions that will bring about, but i'll add 
> that to the TODO list.

Well, I tried it in my prior attempt and didn't have problems in that
area. AFAICT it "just works" if you jack up the numbers.

Also, NUMA-Q's max at 640 routeable RTE's with 16 quads so you'll only
need to add 1 to HARDIRQ_BITS.

The cpu count issue I've fixed in a separate patch.

-- wli