On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:51:52PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Given zeroed tail preconditions these implementations satisfy zeroed
> tail postconditions, which makes them compatible with whatever changes
> from Paul Jackson one may want to merge in the future. No particular
> effort was required to ensure this.
> A small (but hopefully forgiveable) cleanup is a spelling correction:
> s/bitmap_shift_write/bitmap_shift_right/ in one of the kerneldoc comments.
> The primary effect of the patch is to remove the MAX_BITMAP_BITS
> limitation, so restoring the NR_CPUS to be limited only by stackspace
> and slab allocator maximums. They also look vaguely more efficient than
> the current code, though as this was not done for performance reasons,
> no performance testing was done.

An updated userspace test harness properly more demonstrating the
zeroed tail preconditions/postconditions properties is included as a
MIME attachment. The bitmap code requires no changes. This is merely a
more adequate testcase.


-- wli