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Re: number of interrupt sources limit



On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:05:46PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 09:09:13PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > actually, the number of interrupt sources per CPU (but all peripheral
> > interrupts are routed to the BSP) is limited to 32. Is this considered
> > enough for modern x86 ?
> 
> Well, the primary limit is that interrupts must have an entry in the IDT
> and that is naturally limited to 256 entries, including exceptions and
> the like.

yes, but this is still 8x our limit.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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