From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: tmpfs and numa mempolicy Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:43:23 +0200 References: <20070603203003.64fd91a8.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706041543.24516.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Robin Holt , Christoph Lameter List-ID: > I've appended a patch to check node_online_map below, and update > tmpfs.txt accordingly. Looks good to me. > But it looks to me like mempolicy.c normally never lets a nonline > node get into any of its policies, and it would be a bit tedious, > error-prone and unnecessary overhead to relax that: so tmpfs mount > is at present a dangerous exception in this regard. > > Would you be happy with this change, Robin? I'm not very NUMArate: > do nodes in fact ever get onlined after early system startup? Currently not, but at some point they might be. But then there will be quite a lot of code to fix for that anyways so don't let it stop you here. -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: email@kvack.org