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

Paul Jackson
2004-06-06T08:34:50Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> or whatever someone can be arsed to consider a better idea.

If anyone lurking feels the urge to drive this puppy home, jump in.

I'm unavailable, and from what I can guess reading between William's
lines, he's not signed up either. Be forewarned - it's an area that can
generate some long lkml threads ;). Both William and I seem to have an
ample supply of keystrokes.

> a user ABI change in a stable series, would be unfriendly

I agree. While I contemplated such, I don't recall advocating such,
for the reason you state. We're stuck at least for now with the
sched_(set/get)affinity ABI.

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