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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpu-2.5.64-1
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 04:00:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030316120057.GI20188@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17605.1047815599@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:32:54 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Another thought I had was wrapping things in structures for both small
>> and large, even UP systems so proper typechecking is enforced at all
>> times. That would probably need a great deal of arch sweeping to do,
>> especially as a number of arches are UP-only (non-SMP case's motive #2).

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:53:19PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> Keep the optimized model, where cpu_online_map is #defined to 1 for UP.
> Changing it to an ADT just to get type checking on architectures that
> only support UP looks like a bad tradeoff.

It shouldn't hurt UP:

typedef { unsigned long mask; } cpumask_t;

#define cpu_online_map ({ 1UL })

or some such nonsense with all the usual special cases. The arch code
impact OTOH can't really be gotten around with such tricks, if it's
significant. More food for thought...


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-16 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-11  4:24 cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-11  7:17 ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-11  8:25   ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-16  7:39 ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Keith Owens
2003-03-16  8:36   ` cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-16  9:19     ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Keith Owens
2003-03-16  9:46       ` cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-16 10:10       ` cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-16 11:12         ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Keith Owens
2003-03-16 11:32           ` cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-03-16 11:53             ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Keith Owens
2003-03-16 12:00               ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-03-16 12:42             ` cpu-2.5.64-1 Horst von Brand
2003-03-16 19:14               ` cpu-2.5.64-1 William Lee Irwin III

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