Hello, Linus. On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:10:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Peter, I took the patch and changed the bitfields to ulong. > > I wouldn't expect the unsigned long part to matter, except for the > forced split with Right, I was thinking alpha was doing rmw's for things smaller than 64bit. That's 32bit, not 64. > unsigned long :0; > > itself. > > Also, quite frankly, since this is basically very close to other > fields that are *not* unsigned longs, I'd really prefer to not > unnecessarily use a 64-bit field for three bits each. > > So why not just do it with plain unsigned "int", and then maybe just > intersperse them with the other int-sized fields in that neighborhood. > > I'm also wondering if we shouldn't just put the scheduler bits in the > "atomic_flags" thing instead? Sure. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>