linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] NR_CPUS: Various replacements for NR

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Message-ID: <4884C4A1.7010006@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:17:21 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] NR_CPUS: Various replacements for NR_CPUS

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
>> I've found one old patch that seems to have been misplaced [...]
> 
> How did you notice that i missed them - actual crashes, or measurable 
> performance impact?

It might not have been you.  I was just doing a survey again of NR_CPUS
usages and noticed something that looked familiar.  (In fact there were
two patches missing but when I updated the source one of them *magically*
appeared... ;-)

I have three more cases that can be changed coming real soon now.

> 
>> [...] and a few minor new instances where usage of NR_CPUS may be 
>> incorrect.
>>
>> Also a fixup for CPUMASK_ALLOC is included.
> 
> applied to tip/cpus4096, thanks Mike.

No, no, thank you!  ;-)

Mike
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