linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/31] cpumask: Provide new cpumask API

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Message-ID: <48E25111.7060305@sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:17:21 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/31] cpumask: Provide new cpumask API

Mike Travis wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
...
> 
>> In what way will Rusty's changes differ? Since you incorporate some of 
>> Rusty's changes already, could you please iterate towards a single 
>> patchset which we could then start testing?
> 
> Our timezones are not very conducive to a lot of email exchanges (and he's moving.)
>>>From what I've seen I believe he's leaning towards using struct cpumask * and
> less trickery than I have.

Oh yeah, I forgot the other major point of Rusty's approach.  He wants the
patchset to be completely bisectable.  That's far from true in my version.  

Thanks,
Mike
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