From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762872AbXERRLS (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:11:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757355AbXERRLN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:11:13 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:59428 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757242AbXERRLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:11:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:11:33 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: clameter@sgi.com, mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, tgraf@suug.ch, davem@davemloft.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, phillips@google.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair Message-Id: <20070518101133.800db8de.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1179482054.2925.52.camel@lappy> References: <20070514131904.440041502@chello.nl> <1179385718.27354.17.camel@twins> <20070517175327.GX11115@waste.org> <1179429499.2925.26.camel@lappy> <1179437209.2925.29.camel@lappy> <1179482054.2925.52.camel@lappy> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; 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 Peter wrote: > cpusets are ignored when in dire straights for an kernel alloc. No - most kernel allocations never ignore cpusets. The ones marked NOFAIL or ATOMIC can ignore cpusets in dire straights and the ones off interrupts lack an applicable cpuset context. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401