Commit 973656fe authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar

x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry

Impact: improve help text
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 4e17fee2
...@@ -242,10 +242,14 @@ config SPARSE_IRQ ...@@ -242,10 +242,14 @@ config SPARSE_IRQ
bool "Support sparse irq numbering" bool "Support sparse irq numbering"
depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ depends on PCI_MSI || HT_IRQ
help help
This enables support for sparse irq, esp for msi/msi-x. You may need This enables support for sparse irqs. This is useful for distro
if you have lots of cards supports msi-x installed. 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 config NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC
bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity" bool "Move irq desc when changing irq smp_affinity"
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