Re: [patch 3/4] cpu alloc: The allocator

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Sep 30 2008 - 07:39:47 EST


Pekka Enberg wrote:

>> +/*
>> + * Basic allocation unit. A bit map is created to track the use of each
>> + * UNIT_SIZE element in the cpu area.
>> + */
>> +#define UNIT_TYPE int
>> +#define UNIT_SIZE sizeof(UNIT_TYPE)
>> +
>> +int units; /* Actual available units */
>
> What is this thing? Otherwise looks good to me.

This is the number of units available from the cpu allocator. Its determined
on bootup and the bitmap is sized correspondingly.




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