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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow a hyphenated range in get_options
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:52:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45479B87.8000206@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162320874.9524.402.camel@lnx-dfults.americas.sgi.com>

Derek Fults wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:11 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:16 -0600 Derek Fults wrote:
>>
>>> This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
>>> to command line helper function, get_options.    
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>  
>> Hi,
>> Needs justification (why?) and a user.
>>
> 
> Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
> list of cpus.  
> Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
> This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a
> large system.  Valid values of  <cpu_number>  include all cpus, 0 to
> "number of CPUs in system - 1".

Yep, makes sense.  Just need to say so in the patch description
and supply a user of the code.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-31 17:25 Derek Fults
2006-10-31 18:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-31 18:54   ` Derek Fults
2006-10-31 18:52     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2006-10-31 18:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan

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