Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:37:44 -0700 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] cpuset write dirty map |
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Satyam Sharma wrote: > True, the other option could be to put the /pointer/ in there unconditionally, > but that would slow down the MAX_NUMNODES <= BITS_PER_LONG case, > which (after grepping through defconfigs) appears to be the common case on > all archs other than ia64. So I think your idea of making that conditional > centralized in the code with an accompanying comment is the way to go here ...
It won't be long before arch's other than ia64 will have MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG. While it won't be the norm, we should account for it now.
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