Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 Nonlinear CPU support

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20020612084157.041970e0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> you write:
> >Now, you *could* only allocate buffers for cpus where cpu_possible(i)
> >is true, once the rest of the patch goes in.  That would be a valid
> >optimization.
> 
> Please explain. What is cpu_possible()?

>From Hotcpu/hotcpu-boot-i386.patch.gz:

--- working-2.5.19-pre-hotcpu/include/asm-i386/smp.h	Tue Jun  4 15:37:09 2002
+++ working-2.5.19-hotcpu/include/asm-i386/smp.h	Mon Jun  3 18:00:09 2002
@@ -93,6 +94,8 @@
 #define smp_processor_id() (current_thread_info()->cpu)
 
 #define cpu_online(cpu) (cpu_online_map & (1<<(cpu)))
+
+#define cpu_possible(cpu) (phys_cpu_present_map & (1<<(cpu)))
 
 extern inline unsigned int num_online_cpus(void)
 {

ie. "Can this CPU number *ever* exist?", for exactly this kind of
optimization.  It looks like it was a mistake to leave that to a later
patch, but I didn't appreciate the 64k-per-cpu buffer for NTFS (what
is it for, by the way?  per-cpu buffering for a filesystem seems, um,
wierd).

Rusty.
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