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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>,
	corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, wuyun.abel@bytedance.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: add new syscall pidfd_set_mempolicy()
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:00:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0WE/lEiNvl2ljo1@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPTztWYTGOb8ZQzfgThqJn+fyi4ZB8=JQQZi5_rUoDhdftKtvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon 10-10-22 09:22:13, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> For consistency with process_madvise(), I would suggest calling it
> process_set_mempolicy.

This operation has per-thread rather than per-process semantic so I do
not think your proposed naming is better.

> Other than that, this makes sense. To complete
> the set, perhaps a process_mbind() should be added as well. What do
> you think?

Is there any real usecase for this interface? How is the caller supposed
to make per-range decisions without a very involved coordination with
the target process?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10  9:48 [RFC] mm: add new syscall pidfd_set_mempolicy() Zhongkun He
2022-10-10 16:22 ` Frank van der Linden
2022-10-11 15:00   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-10-11 17:22     ` Frank van der Linden
2022-10-11 19:29       ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-12  3:14         ` Abel Wu
2022-10-12 12:34         ` Vinicius Petrucci
2022-10-12 13:07           ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-12 13:23             ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-12 16:51           ` Frank van der Linden
2022-10-11 14:57 ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-12  7:55   ` [External] " Zhongkun He
2022-10-12  9:02     ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-12 11:22       ` Zhongkun He
2022-10-12 12:15         ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-13 10:44           ` Zhongkun He
2022-10-13 11:26             ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-13 12:50               ` Zhongkun He
2022-10-13 13:17                 ` Michal Hocko
2022-10-13 13:42                   ` Zhongkun He
2022-10-12  4:16 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-10-12  8:18   ` [External] " Zhongkun He

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