Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:52:55 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow a hyphenated range in get_options |
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Derek Fults wrote: > Hi Randy, > > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:11 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:16 -0600 Derek Fults wrote: >> >>> This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed >>> to command line helper function, get_options. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> >> Hi, >> Needs justification (why?) and a user. >> > > Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a > list of cpus. > Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> > This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a > large system. Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to > "number of CPUs in system - 1".
Yep, makes sense. Just need to say so in the patch description and supply a user of the code.
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