Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:09:52 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
       colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files
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> I think the option should be "mpol=interleave" rather than just
> "interleave", who knows what baroque mpols we might want to support
> there in future?

Sounds sensible.
 
> I'm irritated to realize that we can't change the default for SysV
> shared memory or /dev/zero this way, because that mount is internal.

Boggle. shmem I can perfectly understand, and have been intending to
change for a while. But why /dev/zero ? Presumably you'd always want
that local?

Thanks,

M.

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