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

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Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] vIOSAPIC and IRQs delivery
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:31:31 -0800
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>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

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