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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:42:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050802224202.1bfb5bac.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508021024001.28005@graphe.net>

Christoph wrote:
> Ok. The str_to_mpol function needs to be executed from the task whose 
> memory policies are to be displayed but why would mpol_to_str need that?

You are probably right.  I doubt mpol_to_str needs that.  I was
probably painting with too wide a brush.


> I am quite concerned about policy layer due to :

I will leave this portion of the discussion to others.

I attempted to tackle some related concerns in a patch I sent lkml on
Aug 2, 2004 (exactly 1 year ago ;) under the Subject:

  subset zonelists and big numa friendly mempolicy MPOL_MBIND
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.0/0398.html

However this patch was unsuccessful, and I have not had any further
great insights to present here (if ever I had any ;).

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-03  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-29 18:38 [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy Christoph Lameter
2005-07-29 22:20 ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-30  0:53   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-30  5:54     ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-30 15:48       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-31  1:45         ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-30  6:00     ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-30 17:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-31  1:14         ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-31  1:21           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-31  1:50             ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-31  2:01             ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-31  2:05               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-31  2:12                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-31  2:15                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-01 18:48                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-01 18:54                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-01 23:03                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-08-01 23:24                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-01 23:59                         ` Paul Jackson
2005-08-02  0:03                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-02  0:15                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-02  5:33                             ` Paul Jackson
2005-08-02  6:11                               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-03  5:44                                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-08-03 16:19                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-02 17:49                               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-03  5:42                                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-08-03  8:48                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 14:11                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-04 14:29                         ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 16:31                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-04 17:08                             ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 17:34                               ` NUMA policy interface Christoph Lameter
2005-08-04 21:14                                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 21:21                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-04 21:41                                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 22:19                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-04 22:44                                         ` Mike Kravetz
2005-08-04 23:40                                         ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-04 23:49                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-05  9:16                                             ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 14:52                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-05 14:58                                               ` Christoph Lameter

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