From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, holt@sgi.com, bcasavan@sgi.com,
cr@sap.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:41:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221234104.7cf4e84c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602220658390.6196@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> But perhaps I should expand the mention of CONFIG_NUMA in tmpfs.txt,
> to explain the issue, and suggest that "mpol=" be used in remounts
> rather than automatic mounts on systems where it might be a problem.
> I'll dream up some wording later.
Yes, a remount is the way this feature should be used.
> > [ Vaguely suprised that tmpfs isn't using match_token()... ]
>
> I did briefly consider that back in the days when I noticed a host of
> fs filesystems got converted. But didn't see any point in messing
> with what was already working. Haven't looked recently: would it
> actually be a useful change to make?
I guess it'd be nice to do for uniformity's sake, but it's hardly pressing.
I have a vague memory that the ext3 conversion actually increased .text
size, which was a bit irritating.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 23:49 [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing Hugh Dickins
2006-02-21 23:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-22 2:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 7:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-02-22 7:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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