Re: cpusets vs. mempolicy and how to get interleaving
From: Paul Jackson <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-20 02:34:31
Ethan wrote:
And what happens when the weight then goes back up? e.g. at first the mems_allowed specifies nodes 0 and 1, and the user sets a MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy across nodes 0 and 1. At some point the "cpuset manager" shrinks the number of nodes to just node 0, then later it adds back node 1. What nodes are in my MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy? As I read the code, I'll only have one node in the mempolicy. If that's true, this doesn't do what I want.
I read the code the same way.
Sounds to me like you want a new and different MPOL_* mempolicy, that
interleaves over whatever nodes are available (allowed) to the task.
The existing MPOL_INTERLEAVE mempolicy interleaves over some specified
nodemask, so we do the best we can to remap that set when it changes.
You want a mempolicy that interleaves over all available nodes, not over
some specified subset of them.
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