Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:45:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum |
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Then you could follow through with the enum mempolicy thing > > throughtout. Why not use enum mempolicy in struct mempolicy? > > > > Mempolicy flags, as I implemented them in patch 2 in this series, are not > integer constants that are enumerated starting at 0. They are individual > bits that are shifted a pre-defined length and intersected with the > enumerated mode. This allows both the mode and the flags to be stored in > the same object.
Ok. Now are you are making the same point that I did before. Lets leave enum out if we need to do these tricks with the upper bits.
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