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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:14:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803011448.GF14775@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021801010.13312@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:02:56PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > > Ok. So MPOL_BIND on a single node. We would have to save the current 
> > > memory policy on the stack and then restore it later. Then you would need 
> > > a special call anyways.
> > 
> > Well the memory policy will already be set to MPOL_BIND at this point.
> > The slab allocator I think would just have to honour the node at the
> > object level.
> 
> Who set the policy? The parent process may have its own memory policy. If 
> you set that then the earlier policy is lost.

Yeah it only gets set if the parent is initially using a default policy
at this stage (and then is restored afterwards of course).

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31  5:41 Nick Piggin
2007-07-31  8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-01  0:21   ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-01  6:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-31  9:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-31 23:40   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-01  8:39     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-02  3:42     ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 19:58       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-03  0:26         ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-03  0:52           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-03  0:57             ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-03  1:02               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-03  1:14                 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-08-03  1:34                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-03  3:14                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-03  5:47                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-01  0:23   ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-01 17:53     ` Martin Bligh
2007-08-01 18:32       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-01 22:52         ` Martin Bligh
2007-08-02  1:36           ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 18:33             ` Martin Bligh
2007-08-03  0:20               ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-03 20:10                 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-06  1:20                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 14:49           ` Lee Schermerhorn

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