From 973656fe1afb4adf95d7b9ab75d4660cd3821ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:26:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry Impact: improve help text Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d14a880..e4c038a 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" -- 2.7.4