RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] vIOSAPIC and IRQs delivery

["Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>]

>BTW, I think it will be *very* hard to find an ia64 platform which can share 
>an IRQ line.  Maybe I am wrong but I don't know such a platform :-(

Hard? No.

Expensive? Yes.

There are only 255 irqs - minus some that the base kernel steals
for cmc, mca, timer, perfmon, etc.  So any large system with a
few hundred i/o cards _must_ share irqs.  There aren't enough
for one each.

-Tony

_______________________________________________
Xen-ia64-devel mailing list
Xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel