Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:37:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] cpusets: add interleave_over_allowed option |
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
> Adds a new 'interleave_over_allowed' option to cpusets. > > When a task with an MPOL_INTERLEAVE memory policy is attached to a cpuset > with this option set, the interleaved nodemask becomes the cpuset's > mems_allowed. When the cpuset's mems_allowed changes, the interleaved > nodemask for all tasks with MPOL_INTERLEAVE memory policies is also > updated to be the new mems_allowed nodemask. > > This allows applications to specify that they want to interleave over all > nodes that they are allowed to access. This set of nodes can be changed > at any time via the cpuset interface and each individual memory policy is > updated to reflect the changes for all attached tasks when this option is > set.
More interactions between cpusets and memory policies. We have to be careful here to keep clean semantics.
Isnt it a bit surprising for an application that has set up a custom MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy if the nodes suddenly change because of a cpuset or mems_allowed change?
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