linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 20:46:38 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com, sivanich@....com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:34:21PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:02 AM,  <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > So, I think we should reconsider about shared mempolicy completely.
> >
> > Quite frankly, I'd prefer that approach. The code is subtle and
> > horribly bug-fraught, and I absolutely detest the way it looks too.
> > Reading your patches was actually somewhat painful.
> 
> It is so bad mostly because the integration of shared memory policies with
> cpusets is not really working. Using either in isolation is ok especially
> shared mempolicies do not play well with cpusets.

Yes the cpusets did some horrible things.

I always regretted that cpusets were no done with custom node lists.
That would have been much cleaner and also likely faster than what we have.

> > If we could just remove the support for it entirely, that would be
> > *much* preferable to continue working with this code.
> 
> Well shm support needs memory policies to spread data across nodes etc.
> AFAICT support was put in due to requirements to support large database
> vendors (oracle). Andi?

Yes we need shared policy for the big databases.

Maybe we could stop supporting cpusets with that though. Not sure they
really use that.

> Its not going to be easy to remove.

Shared policies? I don't think you can remove them.
cpusets+shared policy? maybe, but still will be hard. 

-Andi

> 

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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