Re: [RFC] The meaning of local_cpulist and local_cpus

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Apr 24 2013 - 12:49:23 EST


[+cc linux-pci, Mike]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Bian LuLu <helianthus.lu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, i read some codes of PCI portions. I think
> local_cpulist is a list about one kind of CPU and
> local_cpus is a mask of CPU. But i am not sure when
> and how i should use these two parameters.
>
> See http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.5.4/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c#L390 for
> details.
>
> Would anyone please give me some suggestions?
> Thanks in advance ;-)

I don't know off-hand, but maybe Mike or somebody on linux-pci does.
It looks like Mike added local_cpulist with 39106dcf85.
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