On (04/02/08 13:20), Lee Schermerhorn didst pronounce: > > > When the kernel behaviour changes and breaks user space then the kernel > > > is usually wrong. Cc'ed Lee S. who maintains the kernel code now. > > The memoryless nodes patch series changed a lot of things, so just > reverting this one area [mpol_check_policy()] probably won't restore the > prior behavior. A fully populated node mask is not necessarily a proper > subset of node_online_map(). And contextualize_policy() also requires > the mask to be a subset of mems_allowed which also defaults to nodes > with memory. > > I don't know how Mel Gorman's "two zonelist" series, which is still > awaiting a window into the -mm tree, affects this behavior. Those > patches will certainly be affected by whatever we decide here. >
I doubt they'd make a difference to this particular problem. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
