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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de,
	ashok.raj@intel.com, hch@infradead.org, jbarnes@sgi.com,
	joe.korty@ccur.com, manfred@colorfullife.com,
	colpatch@us.ibm.com, mikpe@csd.uu.se, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Simon.Derr@bull.net, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:54:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603195409.11d4aec2.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040603194755.667e584b.pj@sgi.com>

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:47:55 -0700
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:

> > We avoided doing this because in some situations the compiler will not pass
> > such a cpumask_t in a register, ever.  An efficiency problem on sparc64,
> > apparently.
> 
> When I contacted Dave Miller about this specific problem on March 26,
> 2004, he explained that this was more of a problem on sparc32, and that
> since SMP on sparc32 wasn't in robust shape yet (my words), he seemed
> (from what I could tell) not to be objecting too strongly.
> 
> I've added Dave to the Cc list, in case he wants to add or something, or
> correct my efforts to represent his position.

Those were my feelings, but looking at this specific case why
can't you just change the type to be an aggregate when possible?
Is it really that hard?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-03 16:43 [PATCH] Bitmap and Cpumask Cleanup - Overview Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCH] cpumask 1/10 cpu_present_map real even on non-smp Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 2/10 bitmap cleanup preparation for cpumask overhaul Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 3/10 bitmap inlining and optimizations Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 4/10 uninline find_next_bit on ia64 Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  0:07   ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04  0:25     ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04  2:58       ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  2:47     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  2:54       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-04  5:02         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  5:01           ` David S. Miller
2004-06-04  1:47   ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04  2:02     ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04  2:19       ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04  5:18       ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  5:22         ` David S. Miller
2004-06-04  6:57           ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  9:31         ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04  9:37           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04  9:46             ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04  9:59               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 11:16                 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04 11:27                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 11:32                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 16:23                       ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:28                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:47                           ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 18:12                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:20                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:27                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04 18:38                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05  2:51                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05  3:29                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:42                               ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 18:42                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05  6:48                                   ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06  2:07                               ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-06 12:16                                 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:13                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 12:28                                     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:36                                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 13:42                                         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 23:20                                   ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-07  6:44                                     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  9:41           ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-05  7:01             ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:03           ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:56             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:29               ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 17:52                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 19:01                   ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 19:08               ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-04 19:17                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 20:28                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-07  7:55                   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-05  7:28                 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06  8:07                   ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06  8:16                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05  0:05               ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-05  1:31                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05  8:04                   ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-05  8:26                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06  8:40                       ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:34                         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-07 16:54                       ` fix up compat_sched_[get/set]affinity Joe Korty
2004-06-07 17:07                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04  5:30       ` [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  5:35         ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04  5:40           ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04  5:53             ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04  6:47             ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  4:31     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  8:19   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04  8:43     ` Keith Owens
2004-06-04  9:54       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:08         ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-09 16:38         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04  9:14     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 6/10 remove 26 no longer used cpumask*.h files Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 7/10 remove obsolete cpumask macro uses - i386 arch Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 8/10 remove obsolete cpumask macro uses - other archs Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:11 ` [PATCH] cpumask 9/10 Remove no longer used obsolete macro emulation Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:11 ` [PATCH] cpumask 10/10 optimize various uses of new cpumasks Paul Jackson
2004-06-04  4:27   ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04  4:40     ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04  4:51     ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-09  0:09   ` PATCH] cpumask 11/10 comment, spacing tweaks Paul Jackson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-06 15:07 [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-06 16:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 17:46   ` Paul Jackson

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