On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:54:48AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > unsigned int wasn't large enough? Adding one more bit only doubles the maximum size. That buys us, what, another eighteen months until we have to change it again? Unsigned long seems most sensible to me. Unsigned long long probably isn't worth doing -- you'd have to be using one eighth of your address space on a single bitmap. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
