Re: [PATCH 1/6] cpuset write dirty map

Satyam Sharma wrote:
 > True, the other option could be to put the /pointer/ in there unconditionally,
> but that would slow down the MAX_NUMNODES <= BITS_PER_LONG case,
> which (after grepping through defconfigs) appears to be the common case on
> all archs other than ia64. So I think your idea of making that conditional
> centralized in the code with an accompanying comment is the way to go here ...

It won't be long before arch's other than ia64 will have
MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG. While it won't be the norm,
we should account for it now.

Thanks,
Mike
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