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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm: use cpumask_var_t for cpus_hardware_enabled
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:55:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493BF206.4070007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812072125.45757.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:
> This changes cpus_hardware_enabled from a cpumask_t to a cpumask_var_t:
> equivalent for CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK=n, otherwise dynamically allocated.
>
>  
> -static cpumask_t cpus_hardware_enabled;
> +static cpumask_var_t cpus_hardware_enabled

This isn't on stack, so it isn't buying us anything.

Is the plan to drop cpumask_t?  If so, we're penalizing non-stack users 
by forcing them to go through another pointer (and cacheline).



-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


       reply	other threads:[~2008-12-07 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200812072125.45757.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-07 15:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-12-08  6:05   ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: use cpumask_var_t for cpus_hardware_enabled Rusty Russell
2008-12-08  9:46     ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-08 11:50       ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-08 14:29         ` Mike Travis

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