On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:37:08PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > - position in bitmask represents nothing other than identification of > reservation and size, so: > > group-A = 0x3F, group-B = 0xFF > is the same as > group-A = 0xFC, group-B = 0xFF
No, the position very much matters; maybe not in this example, but it does the moment you get overlapping bitmaps. Picking which bits overlap determines which other groups are affected. This is why a bitmap is more expressive than a single percentage. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
