Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:18:24 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/12] cpumask: reduce stack pressure from local/passed cpumask variables v2 | |
* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> Modify usage of cpumask_t variables to use pointers as much as
> possible.
hm, why is there no minimal patch against -git that does nothing but
introduces the new pointer based generic APIs (without using them) -
such as set_cpus_allowed_ptr(), etc.? Once that is upstream all the
remaining changes can trickle one arch and one subsystem at a time, and
once that's done, the old set_cpus_allowed() can be removed. This is far
more manageable than one large patch.
and the cpumask_of_cpu() change should be Kconfig based initially - once
all arches have moved to it (or even sooner) we can remove that.
Ingo
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