From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow selected nodes to be excluded from MPOL_INTERLEAVE masks Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:07:43 +0200 References: <1185566878.5069.123.camel@localhost> <200708011233.02103.ak@suse.de> <20070801110120.GA9449@linux-sh.org> In-Reply-To: <20070801110120.GA9449@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708011307.44189.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul Mundt Cc: Lee Schermerhorn , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm , Christoph Lameter , Nishanth Aravamudan , kxr@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Eric Whitney List-ID: > As long as interleaving is possible after boot, then yes. It's only the > boot-time interleave that we would like to avoid, But when anybody does interleaving later it could just as easily fill up your small nodes, couldn't it? Boot time allocations are small compared to what user space later can allocate. And do you really want them in the normal fallback lists? The normal zone reservation heuristics probably won't work unless you put them into special low zones. -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