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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxc bitmap utils and vcpu-affinity
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:10:52 +0000
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>>> Dulloor <dulloor@gmail.com> 22.03.10 18:44 >>>
>Motivation for using xenctl_cpumask in Xen interfaces :
>- xenctl_cpumap is just 4 bytes smaller than static xenctl_cpumask for
>128 cpus (128 would be good for quite some time). However, the new

I don't buy this (we're already building for 256 CPUs, looking forward
to further bump this in the not too distant future), and I'm generally
opposed to introducing hard coded limits in a public interface.

Jan