On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > For some systems [not mine], the nodemasks can get quite large. I have > a patch, that I've tested atop Mel Gorman's "onezonelist" patches that > replaces the nodemasks embedded in struct mempolicy with pointers to > dynamically allocated ones. However, it's probably not much of a win, > memorywise, if most of the uses are for interleave and bind > policies--both of which would always need the nodemasks in addition to > the pointers. > > Now, if we could replace the 'cpuset_mems_allowed' nodemask with a > pointer to something stable, it might be a win.
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