linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation

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Message-ID: <20130801101424.GN3008@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:14:24 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
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	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock
 implementation

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:41:33PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> It is exactly 16k-1 not 15k
> That is because CPU_CODE of 1 to 16k represents cpu 0..16k-1
> 

More specifically:

+       BUILD_BUG_ON(CONFIG_NR_CPUS >= MAX_CPUS);

Our NR_CPUS is very much a power of two.
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