Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset: fix wrong calculation of relax domain level

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

In looking at this, I notice something I should have questioned before.

The include/linux/sched.h code:

    struct sched_domain_attr {
	    int relax_domain_level;
    };

    #define SD_ATTR_INIT    (struct sched_domain_attr) {    \
	    .relax_domain_level = -1,                       \
    }                                                                                                                                 

and the associated passing of relax_domain_level's embedded inside
a kmalloc'c struct sched_domain_attr 'dattr' seems like excessive
obfuscating apparatus to me.  Unless someone has short term plans
to be adding some other attributes to this sched_domain_attr, I
suspect it would make more sense just to pass relax_domain_level's
as explicit lvalues, dropping all this attr stuff.

Adding unnecessary abstractions 'for future growth' is usually a
bad idea.  It impedes current code understanding more than it aids
future code growth.

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