Re: cpusets vs. mempolicy and how to get interleaving

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Ethan wrote:
> 	OK, then I'll proceed with a new MPOL. Do you believe that this will be 
> of general interest? i.e. worth placing in linux-mm?

I've no idea if it is of general interest or not.  I'm not interested ;).
But I'm just one person.

> 	BTW, a slightly different MPOL_INTERLEAVE implementation would help, 
> wherein we save the nodemask originally specified by the user and do the 
> remap from the original nodemask rather than the current nodemask.

I kinda like this idea; though keep in mind that since I don't use
mempolicy mechanisms, I am not loosing any sleep over minor(?)
compatibility breakages.  It would take someone familiar with the
actual users or usages of MPOL_INTERLEAVE to know if or how much
this would bite actual users/usages.

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