linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NUMA] Display and modify the memory policy of a process through /proc/<pid>/numa_policy
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:46:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050715134616.43130b30@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050714230501.4a9df11e.pj@sgi.com>

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:05:01 -0700
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:

> Christoph wrote:
> > This is an implementation that deals with monitoring and managing running 
> > processes.
> 
> So is this patch roughly equivalent to adding a pid to the
> mbind/set_mempolicy/get_mempolicy system calls?
> 
> Not that I am advocating for or against adding doing that.  But this
> seems like alot of code, with new and exciting API details, just to
> add a pid argument, if such it be.
> 
> Andi - could you remind us all why you chose not to have a pid argument
> in these calls?

Because of locking issues and I don't think external processes
should mess with virtual addresses of other processes. There is
just no way to do the later cleanly and race free.

I haven't seen the patch, but from the description it sounds wrong.

-Andi
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"aart@kvack.org"> aart@kvack.org </a>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-15  1:39 Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15  3:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-15  4:52 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-15  5:07   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15  5:55     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-15  6:05     ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-15 11:46       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-07-15 16:06       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 21:04         ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-15 21:12           ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 21:20             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 21:47               ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 21:55                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 22:07                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 22:30                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 22:37                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 22:49                         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 22:56                           ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 23:11                             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-15 23:44                               ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 23:56                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-16  2:01                                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-16 15:14                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-16 22:39                                       ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-16 23:30                                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-17  1:55                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-17  3:50                                         ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-17  5:56                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-17  7:22                                             ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-17  3:21                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-17  4:51                                         ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-17  6:00                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-17  8:17                                             ` Paul Jackson
2005-07-16  0:00                                 ` David Singleton
2005-07-16  0:16                                 ` Steve Neuner

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20050715134616.43130b30@basil.nowhere.org \
    --to=ak@suse.de \
    --cc=clameter@engr.sgi.com \
    --cc=kenneth.w.chen@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=pj@sgi.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox