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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:18:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
cc:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, clameter@....com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] cpusets: add interleave_over_allowed option

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> You don't need to save the entire mask--just note that NODE_MASK_ALL was
> passed--like with my internal MPOL_CONTEXT flag.  This would involve
> special casing NODE_MASK_ALL in the error checking, as currently
> set_mempolicy() complains loudly if you pass non-allowed nodes--see
> "contextualize_policy()".  [mbind() on the other hand, appears to allow
> any nodemask, even outside the cpuset.  guess we catch this during
> allocation.]  This is pretty much the spirit of my patch w/o the API
> change/extension [/improvement :)]
> 

Not really, because perhaps your application doesn't want to interleave 
over all nodes.  I suggested NODE_MASK_ALL as the way to get access to all 
the memory you are allowed, but it's certainly plausible that an 
application could request to interleave only over a subset.  That's the 
entire reason set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAVE) takes a nodemask anyway right 
now instead of just using task->mems_allowed on each allocation.

		David
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