Re: [patch 2/2] cpusets: add interleave_over_allowed option

Christoph Lameter
2007-10-29T20:37:19Z

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Paul Jackson wrote:

> The more I have stared at this, the more certain I've become that we
> need to make the mbind/mempolicy calls modal -- the default mode
> continues to interpret node numbers and masks just as these calls do
> now, and the alternative mode provides the so called "Choice B",
> which takes node numbers and masks as if the task owned the entire
> system, and then the kernel internally and automatically scrunches
> those masks down to whatever happens to be the current cpuset of
> the task.

Ack.