Yinghai Lu wrote:
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> when !CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ, with dyn_array, could allocate irq_desc
> and etc as less as possible.
> when CONFIG_HAVE_SPARESE_IRQ, no actually meaning for nr_irqs.
> 
> YH

So I believe the only case this affects is !CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ

The worry is that with CONFIG_HAVE_DYN_ARRAY we may waste memory by 
pre-allocating more irq_descs than may be necessary (NR_IRQs vs 32)?

With !CONFIG_HAVE_DYN_ARRAY however, a static array of size NR_IRQS is 
allocated instead - so doesn't defaulting nr_irqs back to NR_IRQS just 
revert to the old behaviour (with the exception of the irq_descs being 
allocated in pre_alloc_dyn_array instead)?

- Alex
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