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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] mempolicy: Remove mempolicy sharing
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Ideally, the shared policy handling would be rewritten to either properly
> handle COW of the policy structures or at least reference count MPOL_F_SHARED
> based exclusively on information within the policy. However, this patch takes
> the easier approach of disabling any policy sharing between VMAs. Each new
> range allocated with sp_alloc will allocate a new policy, set the reference
> count to 1 and drop the reference count of the old policy. This increases
> the memory footprint but is not expected to be a major problem as mbind()
> is unlikely to be used for fine-grained ranges. It is also inefficient
> because it means we allocate a new policy even in cases where mbind_range()
> could use the new_policy passed to it. However, it is more straight-forward
> and the change should be invisible to the user.


Hmmm. I dont like the additional memory use but this is definitely an
issue that needs addressing.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>


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