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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d14a8806227d..e4c038abb71c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -242,10 +242,14 @@ config SPARSE_IRQ bool "Support sparse irq numbering" depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ help - This enables support for sparse irq, esp for msi/msi-x. You may need - if you have lots of cards supports msi-x installed. + 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. - If you don't know what to do here, say Y. + ( 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 N. config NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" |