linux-kernel - Re: + per-cpuset-hugetlb-accounting-and-administration.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <b040c32a0705032313m41d53d79tb78828dbe82747aa@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2007 23:13:57 -0700
From:	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agl@...ibm.com,
	hermes@...son.dropbear.id.au, wli@...omorphy.com, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: + per-cpuset-hugetlb-accounting-and-administration.patch added to -mm tree

On 5/3/07, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> Note, Ken, that if we did that, the calculation of these new Total and
> Free stats would be a little different than your new code.  Instead of
> looping over the memory nodes in the current tasks mems_allowed mask,
> we would loop over the memory nodes allowed in the cpuset being queried
> (the cpuset whose 'hugepages_total' or 'hugepages_free' special
> file we were reading, not the current tasks cpuset.)

This is even more controversial and messy.  akpm already dropped the
patch and expressed that he doesn't like it.  And I won't go down
another messy path. I will let this idea RIP.
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