Lee wrote: > 2. As this thread progresses, you've discussed relaxing the requirement > that applications pass a valid subset of mems_allowed. I.e., something > that was illegal becomes legal. An API change, I think. But, a > backward compatible one, so that's OK, right? :-)
The more I have stared at this, the more certain I've become that we need to make the mbind/mempolicy calls modal -- the default mode continues to interpret node numbers and masks just as these calls do now, and the alternative mode provides the so called "Choice B", which takes node numbers and masks as if the task owned the entire system, and then the kernel internally and automatically scrunches those masks down to whatever happens to be the current cpuset of the task. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.925.600.0401 - 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/