From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262060AbVHCFmN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:42:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262062AbVHCFmN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:42:13 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:47492 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262060AbVHCFmL (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:42:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:42:02 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy Message-Id: <20050802224202.1bfb5bac.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050729152049.4b172d78.pj@sgi.com> <20050729230026.1aa27e14.pj@sgi.com> <20050730181418.65caed1f.pj@sgi.com> <20050730190126.6bec9186.pj@sgi.com> <20050730191228.15b71533.pj@sgi.com> <20050801160351.71ee630a.pj@sgi.com> <20050801165947.36b5da96.pj@sgi.com> <20050801223304.2a8871e8.pj@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 1.925.600.0401