From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760206AbYBETPm (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759110AbYBETPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:15:25 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:37493 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759756AbYBETPX (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:15:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:15:17 -0600 From: Paul Jackson To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com Subject: Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1][regression?] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node. Message-Id: <20080205131517.1189104f.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20080202165054.F491.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080202090914.GA27723@one.firstfloor.org> <20080202180536.F494.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <1202149243.5028.61.camel@localhost> <20080205143149.GA4207@csn.ul.ie> <1202225017.5332.1.camel@localhost> <1202236056.5332.17.camel@localhost> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; 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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph wrote: > Can we fix up his patch to address the immediate issue? Since any of those future patches only add optional modes with new flags, while preserving current behaviour if you don't use one of the new flags, therefore the current behavior has to work as best it can. Therefore fixes such as this to address immediate issues are probably needed. Yup. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214