Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:31:50 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1][regression?] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node. |
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On (04/02/08 13:20), Lee Schermerhorn didst pronounce: > > > When the kernel behaviour changes and breaks user space then the kernel > > > is usually wrong. Cc'ed Lee S. who maintains the kernel code now. > > The memoryless nodes patch series changed a lot of things, so just > reverting this one area [mpol_check_policy()] probably won't restore the > prior behavior. A fully populated node mask is not necessarily a proper > subset of node_online_map(). And contextualize_policy() also requires > the mask to be a subset of mems_allowed which also defaults to nodes > with memory. > > I don't know how Mel Gorman's "two zonelist" series, which is still > awaiting a window into the -mm tree, affects this behavior. Those > patches will certainly be affected by whatever we decide here. >
I doubt they'd make a difference to this particular problem.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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