To: colpatch@us.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:04:41 +0100
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Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> writes:

>> Chris Hellwig responded to it at the time asking why I didn't provide a
>> single generic mask ADT, and make cpumask and nodemask instances of
>> that.
>
> That is a better idea, if it can be made to work.  My goal is to stop

It already exists in linux/bitmap.h. I use that in NUMA API for the node masks.

It's just a bit ugly to write because you have to always pass MAX_NUMNODES.
Some wrappers would be prettier.

-Andi

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