From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263149AbUCSXoj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:44:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263159AbUCSXoj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:44:39 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:29940 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263149AbUCSXod (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:44:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:42:31 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: colpatch@us.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, akpm@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7] Message-Id: <20040319154231.114bcfbf.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1079736707.17841.29.camel@arrakis> References: <1079651064.8149.158.camel@arrakis> <20040318165957.592e49d3.pj@sgi.com> <1079659184.8149.355.camel@arrakis> <20040318174540.700917ea.pj@sgi.com> <1079736707.17841.29.camel@arrakis> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Well, if we're going to make a generic bitmap type, it shouldn't have > size limitations, as almost any limit we set will be too small > eventually... A trillion bits ... Nah - bitmasks are a bunch of bits, layed out in order. This is appropriate for tens, hundreds, even (on big iron) thousands of bits. There are limitations to the practical application of such bitmasks, as I'm sure we both agree and both accept. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373