Re: [PATCH v20 0/7] Virtio-balloon Enhancement

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:49:44AM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> On 12/21/2017 01:10 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> One more question is about the return value, why would it be ambiguous? I
> think it is the same as find_next_bit() which returns the found bit or size
> if not found.

Because find_next_bit doesn't reasonably support a bitmap which is
ULONG_MAX in size.  The point of XBitmap is to support a bitmap which
is ULONG_MAX in size, so every possible return value is a legitimate
"we found a bit here".  There's no value which can possibly be used for
"no bit was found".
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