Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] bitmap: introduce find_random_bit() and use in clocksource

From: Yury Norov
Date: Sat Jun 21 2025 - 10:21:27 EST


On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 11:37:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19 2025 at 14:26, Yury Norov wrote:
> > nodemasks implement node_random(), which may also be useful for other
> > subsystems. Generalize the function, and propagate to cpumask API.
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250604212125.25656-1-yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx/
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250608194536.28130-1-yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx/
> > v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250617200854.60753-1-yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx/
> > v4: return NUMA_NO_NODES instead of MAX_NUMNODES in node_random() (Andrew)
> >
> > Yury Norov [NVIDIA] (3):
> > bitmap: generalize node_random()
> > cpumask: introduce cpumask_random()
> > clocksource: Improve randomness in clocksource_verify_choose_cpus()
>
> Assuming this goes through the bitmap tree, for the clocksource change:
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applying in bitmap-for-next for testing.