Re: [PATCH] mask ADT: replace cpumask_t implementation [3/22]

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

> >  #define	cpu_online_map			cpumask_of_cpu(0)
> >  #define	cpu_possible_map		cpumask_of_cpu(0)
> >  ...
> Might it make more sense to actually define a cpu_online_map &
> cpu_possible_map for UP, rather than generating this code:
> 
> #define mask_of_bit(bit, T)                                            \
> ({                                                                     \
>        typeof(T) m;                                                    \
>        mask_clearall(m);                                               \
>        mask_setbit((bit), m);                                          \
>        m;                                                              \
> })
> 
> every time some code references cpu_online_map?  It'll only cost us 2
> unsigned longs on 32-bit == 8 bytes...

Perhaps.

When I looked at the code just now, this only seemed to take a
couple of instructions.  Do you think that there is much to gain?
Better a couple of inline instructions than a possible uncached
memory reference, I suspect.

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