Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:37:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        pjt@google.com, bharata.rao@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, aarcange@redhat.com, danms@us.ibm.com,
        suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
        linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/numa] sched/numa: Introduce sys_numa_{t,m}bind()
In-Reply-To: <1337355223.573.66.camel@twins>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205181036380.21093@router.home>
References: <tip-nf7brf1b88w0ojwuf689xeet@git.kernel.org> <4FB66756.2060302@redhat.com> <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205181022470.21093@router.home> <1337355223.573.66.camel@twins>
User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 588
Lines: 14

On Fri, 18 May 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Most of that is due to existing interfaces, I'm afraid we cannot
> simplify without reducing those :/

I think some change to those would also be appropriate. Those have grown
over a long time and there are some areas of problematic integration with
the scheduler, numa policies and cpusets etc.

--
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/