Re: NUMA API observations

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Andi wrote:
> How should a user space application sanely discover the cpumask_t
> size needed by the kernel?  Whoever designed that was on crack.
> 
> I will probably make it loop and double the buffer until EINVAL
> ends or it passes a page and add a nasty comment.

I agree that a loop is needed.  And yes someone didn't do a very
good job of designing this interface.

I posted a piece of code that gets a usable upper bound on cpumask_t
size, suitable for application code to size mask buffers to be used
in these system calls.

See the lkml article:

  http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.hp225re.1v68ei0%40ifi.uio.no

Or search in google groups for "cpumasksz".

This article was posted:

    Date: 2004-06-04 09:20:13 PST 

in a long thread under the Subject of:

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

Feel free to steal it, or to ignore it, if you find it easier to
write your version than to read mine.

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