On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:44:19PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > current algorithm in allocate_free_irq() is O(n), > by just keeping track of last allocated IRQ with a > simple unsigned integer, we can find a free IRQ > in O(1). > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com> > --- > > compile-tested only as J6 DTS is currently missing crossbar > altogether :-( > > There's a drawback with this patch which I'm not sure if we > should care a lot because I couldn't entirely grasp when is > domain->xlate() called and if we will map/unmap IRQs in runtime > or will this *always* be done only during boot. > > If we're talking about runtime IRQ remapping, then this, clearly, > won't work. But if this will be done only during boot up, then we > avoid iterating over the irq_map array each time we try to translate > a new IRQ prior to mapping it. > > Comments are highly welcome as I'll probably learn something new > about the IRQ subsystem ;-)
do not apply this one!!! It won't work in all cases. -- balbi
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