Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:

> I should note that we have already been offered a patch to do this, by
> Christian Limpach.  It was rejected -- to my utter disbelief -- by an
> influential developer because, since it packed "which run queue am I
> on" into an integer with one bit per CPU, it would require later revision
> to accomodate systems with more than 32 processors.

Uh... don't we already have some 32-bit per-CPU bitsets in various places?

-- 
(let ((C call-with-current-continuation)) (apply (lambda (x y) (x y)) (map
((lambda (r) ((C C) (lambda (s) (r (lambda l (apply (s s) l))))))  (lambda
(f) (lambda (l) (if (null? l) C (lambda (k) (display (car l)) ((f (cdr l))
(C k)))))))    '((#\J #\d #\D #\v #\s) (#\e #\space #\a #\i #\newline)))))