Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation

Andrew Morton
2004-06-04T05:41:24Z

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> Yes, I'm all for the full cpumask abstraction.

Where do we stand wrt pass-by-reference? I remember there was initially
some concern that lugging 512-bit scalars around by value was expensive, so
Bill's original work was at least geared toward pass-by-reference?