From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] mm/mempolicy: add set_mempolicy_home_node syscall
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:22:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211201162247.3cxpeyzbb2kknujm@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tufsc0lp.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 11:45:14AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:12:37PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> sys_set_mempolicy_home_node((unsigned long)p, nr_pages * page_size,
> >> home_node, 0);
> >
> > What about sys_mbind_home_node so the name is better aligned with mbind,
> > since both operate on vma policy? The syscall might or might not be
> > extended to task memory policy, but vma policy is what we're using this
> > for today.
>
> I used the name set_mempolicy_home_node, because we are setting the home
> for a memory policy. I find the term mbind confusing.
Fair enough. Forgive me for starting in on naming :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-01 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20211116064238.727454-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-11-16 6:42 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] mm/mempolicy: use policy_node helper with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-29 10:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-11-29 10:12 ` [PATCH 4/3] mm: drop node from alloc_pages_vma Michal Hocko
2021-11-16 6:42 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] mm/mempolicy: add set_mempolicy_home_node syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-29 10:32 ` Michal Hocko
2021-11-29 10:46 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-29 12:45 ` Michal Hocko
2021-11-29 13:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-29 14:52 ` Michal Hocko
2021-11-29 14:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-29 15:19 ` Michal Hocko
2021-11-29 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2021-11-30 8:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-11-30 9:59 ` Michal Hocko
2021-12-01 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-01 6:22 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-12-01 0:47 ` Daniel Jordan
2021-12-01 6:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-12-01 16:22 ` Daniel Jordan [this message]
2021-11-16 6:42 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node Aneesh Kumar K.V
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