linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] cpusets: add interleave_over

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710291336470.1566@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:36:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
cc:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>, rientjes@...gle.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 Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Paul Jackson wrote:

> The more I have stared at this, the more certain I've become that we
> need to make the mbind/mempolicy calls modal -- the default mode
> continues to interpret node numbers and masks just as these calls do
> now, and the alternative mode provides the so called "Choice B",
> which takes node numbers and masks as if the task owned the entire
> system, and then the kernel internally and automatically scrunches
> those masks down to whatever happens to be the current cpuset of
> the task.

Ack.

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