On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Then you could follow through with the enum mempolicy thing > throughtout. Why not use enum mempolicy in struct mempolicy? >
Mempolicy flags, as I implemented them in patch 2 in this series, are not integer constants that are enumerated starting at 0. They are individual bits that are shifted a pre-defined length and intersected with the enumerated mode. This allows both the mode and the flags to be stored in the same object. Just because enum mempolicy_mode is the equivalent of passing an int in C is irrelevant; its semantics are that the value is coming from enum mempolicy_mode. That includes _only_ the mode itself: enum mempolicy_mode { MPOL_DEFAULT, MPOL_BIND, MPOL_PREFERRED, MPOL_INTERLEAVE, MPOL_MAX, }; And changing the policy member of struct mempolicy to 'enum mempolicy_mode' instead of 'unsigned short' would increase its size. Not that it matters, since in the third patch I add a whole nodemask_t, but it's simply unnecessary. Right now we have the capacity to store 256 individual mempolicy modes (we currently use four) and eight mempolicy flags with unsigned short. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/