Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:14:57 +1000 | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Simplified scalable cpu bitmasks |
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:21:24 -0700 (PDT) "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:42:51 +1000 > > This changes bitmap_member to the more logical DECLARE_BITMAP, then > uses it for cpu_online_map (ie. cpu_online_map is now an unsigned long > array). > > Compiles and boots: Dave, how's this? > > I'm ok with this for now. > > I suspect that once you start using NR_CPUS in the range of 1024 or so > you want to allow the port do things like "use a pointer for cpuset_t > and NULL means CPU_MASK_ALL"
I thought about that. Then I thought, "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it". It's overdesign at the moment, we'll be able to judge in 2.7.
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