From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: pj@sgi.com, mikpe@csd.uu.se, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de,
ashok.raj@intel.com, hch@infradead.org, jbarnes@sgi.com,
joe.korty@ccur.com, manfred@colorfullife.com,
colpatch@us.ibm.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:27:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040604112730.534cca55.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040604181233.GF21007@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> _SC_NPROCESSOR_CONF is
> unimplementable. NR_CPUS serves as an upper bound on the number of cpus
> that may at some time be simultaneously present in the future.
NR_CPUS is arguably the correct thing when it comes to copying per-cpu info
to and from userspace.
Sometimes userspace wants to know NR_CPUS. Sometimes it wants to know the
index of the max possible CPU. Sometimes, perhaps the index of the max
online CPU. Sometimes the max index of the CPUs upon which this task is
eligible to run. Sometimes (lame) userspace may want to know, at compile
time, the maximum number of CPUs which a Linux kernel will ever support.
It's not completely trivial.
Which of the above is _SC_NPROCESSOR_CONF supposed to return?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-04 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-03 16:43 [PATCH] Bitmap and Cpumask Cleanup - Overview Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:05 ` [PATCH] cpumask 1/10 cpu_present_map real even on non-smp Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 2/10 bitmap cleanup preparation for cpumask overhaul Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 3/10 bitmap inlining and optimizations Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:09 ` [PATCH] cpumask 4/10 uninline find_next_bit on ia64 Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04 2:58 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 2:47 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 2:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-04 5:02 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 5:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-04 1:47 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04 2:02 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04 2:19 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04 5:18 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 5:22 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-04 6:57 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 9:31 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04 9:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 9:46 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04 9:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 11:16 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-04 11:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 11:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 16:23 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:47 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 18:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-04 18:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05 2:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05 3:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 18:42 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 18:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05 6:48 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 2:07 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-06 12:16 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 12:28 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 13:42 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 23:20 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-07 6:44 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 9:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-05 7:01 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:03 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 16:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:29 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 17:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 19:01 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 19:08 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-04 19:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-07 7:55 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-05 7:28 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 8:07 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 8:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05 0:05 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-05 1:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-05 8:04 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-05 8:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 8:40 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 12:34 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-07 16:54 ` fix up compat_sched_[get/set]affinity Joe Korty
2004-06-07 17:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 5:30 ` [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 5:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04 5:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-04 5:53 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04 6:47 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 4:31 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 8:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 8:43 ` Keith Owens
2004-06-04 9:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 17:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-09 16:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-04 9:14 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 6/10 remove 26 no longer used cpumask*.h files Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 7/10 remove obsolete cpumask macro uses - i386 arch Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:10 ` [PATCH] cpumask 8/10 remove obsolete cpumask macro uses - other archs Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:11 ` [PATCH] cpumask 9/10 Remove no longer used obsolete macro emulation Paul Jackson
2004-06-03 17:11 ` [PATCH] cpumask 10/10 optimize various uses of new cpumasks Paul Jackson
2004-06-04 4:27 ` Rusty Russell
2004-06-04 4:40 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-04 4:51 ` Paul Jackson
2004-06-09 0:09 ` PATCH] cpumask 11/10 comment, spacing tweaks Paul Jackson
2004-06-06 15:07 [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-06 16:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-06 17:46 ` Paul Jackson
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