Re: [patch 1/3] add the fsblock layer

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:18:42PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, could define a macro DECLARE_ATOMIC_BITMAP(maxbit) that expands to the smallest
> > possible type for each architecture. And a couple of ugly casts for set_bit et.al.
> > but those could be also hidden in macros. Should be relatively easy to do.
> 
> or make a "smallbit" type that is small/supported, so 64 bit if 32 bit
> isn't supported, otherwise 32

That wouldn't handle the case where you only need e.g. 8 bits
That's fine for x86 too. It only hates atomic accesses crossing cache line
boundaries (but handles them too, just slow) 

-Andi