Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2010 12:36:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Have sane default values for cpusets | From | Paul Menage <> |
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think the idea is reasonable - the only way that I could see it >> breaking someone would be code that currently does something like: >> >> mkdir A >> mkdir B >> echo 1 > A/mem_exclusive >> echo 1 > B/mem_exclusive >> echo $mems_for_a > A/mems >> echo $mems_for_b > B/mems >> >> The attempts to set the mem_exclusive flags would fail, since A and B >> would both have all of the parent's mems. >> > > But would this not fail otherwise? >
Assuming that mems_for_a and mems_for_b were disjoint, it would be fine currently.
Paul
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