linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator

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Date:	Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:15:34 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, jeremy@...p.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	travis@....com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator

Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> umm, yeah, the whole bitmap interface is busted from that POV.


Yup cannot find equivalent bitmap operations for cpu_alloc.

Also the search operations already use find_next_zero_bit() and
find_next_bit(). So this should be okay.

We could define new bitops:

bitmap_set_range(dst, start, end)
bitmap_clear_range(dst, start, end)

int find_zero_bits(dst, start, end, nr_of_zero_bits)

but then there are additional alignment requirements that such a generic
function would not be able to check for.


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