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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpuset: update top cpuset's mems after adding a node
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Miao Xie wrote:
>
> > on 2008-11-10 14:56 Yasunori Goto wrote:
> > > Did you test this patch? Was it OK?
> >
> > I did it on IA64 just now. Updating top cpuset's mems is fine.
> > But I forgot to update the mems_allowed of every task in top cpuset group.
> > It is difficult to fix it, because I don't know whether updating a memory-bound
> > task's mem_allowed is good or not.
> >
>
> There's a fix pending in the mmotm tree that calls
> cpuset_update_task_memory_state() in the slow path of the page allocator,
> so if one of these tasks fails to allocate memory, its cached mems_allowed
> nodemask will be updated to include the new node(s).
>
> The patch is available at
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/cpusets-update-mems-allowed-in-page-allocator.patch

Ah, OK. This seems reasonable.

Then Miao-san's patch is fine.
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>


Thanks.
--
Yasunori Goto




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