Re: + per-cpuset-hugetlb-accounting-and-administration.patch added to -mm tree

["Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com>]

On 5/3/07, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> Note, Ken, that if we did that, the calculation of these new Total and
> Free stats would be a little different than your new code.  Instead of
> looping over the memory nodes in the current tasks mems_allowed mask,
> we would loop over the memory nodes allowed in the cpuset being queried
> (the cpuset whose 'hugepages_total' or 'hugepages_free' special
> file we were reading, not the current tasks cpuset.)

This is even more controversial and messy.  akpm already dropped the
patch and expressed that he doesn't like it.  And I won't go down
another messy path. I will let this idea RIP.