Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpumask: alloc blank cpumask left over | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:28:07 +0930 |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:31:31 am Yinghai Lu wrote: > avoid suprise when MAXSMP is enabled > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
I understand the temptation, but two questions arise: 1) Shouldn't we actually audit to see if any of these are currently problems, and 2) Should the non-MAXSMP alloc_cpumask_var_node (currently a noop) zero the mask if __GFP_ZERO is set?
Thanks, Rusty.
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