Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:38:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x SMP scalability question. |
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thursday Kanoj, Cort Dougan, DaveM and me had dinner in Mountain > View and we decieded to tackle this bitmask problem for 2.4. Linux > 2.6 or 3.0 will be to long in the future for SGI, so we think we have > to already do this for 2.4.
well i protested when it was introduced initially, for exactly the same reason :-) Basically i think it's not hard at all to avoid word-sized bitmasks (or to define long enough ones) - if it's done right from the start.
Ingo
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