Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759739AbYBNUHH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:07:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756736AbYBNUGz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:55 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:33132 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041AbYBNUGy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen cc: Paul Jackson , David Rientjes , Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, travis@sgi.com Subject: Re: [RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions In-Reply-To: <200802142102.41420.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20080214123528.25274.84387.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <200802142102.41420.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 17 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > You're saying the kernel should use these relative masks internally? There is just some thoughts about this. Did not have time to look into the details. Mike? > That means it would be impossible to run workloads that use the complete > machine because you couldn't represent all nodes. Not sure how they are addressing this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/