Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763457AbYBZRo1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758310AbYBZRoU (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:20 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:51809 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757478AbYBZRoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:17 -0600 From: Paul Jackson To: David Rientjes Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag Message-Id: <20080226114417.c8948b61.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1099 Lines: 26 David, Perhaps I missed it, but could you elaborate on what sort of testing these patches for MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES and MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES have received? The main reason I didn't push my version of these patches in December was I figured it would take a week or three of obsessive-compulsive testing to verify that we didn't break various corner cases of the mbind/mempolicy system call interface. In particular, do we know that Oracle works with this? At least in years past, when Andi was the primary developer here, he had some good and detailed awareness of what it took to keep Oracle happy with this NUMA memory policy apparatus. I don't know if we still have that awareness. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214 -- 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/