On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:01 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:50:42AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:52 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > > The node mask is a list of allowed. This is intended to be as near > > > to a one-to-one migration path as possible. > > > > If that's the case, it would make the kernel internals a bit simpler to > > only take a "from" and "to" node, instead of those maps. You'll end up > > making multiple syscalls, but that shouldn't be a problem. > > Then how do you handle overlapping nodes. If I am doing a 5->4, 4->3, > 3->2, 2->1 shift in the memory placement and had only a from and to node, > I would end up calling multiple times. This would end up in memory shifting > from 5->4 on the first, 4->3 on the second, ... with the end result of > all memory shifting to a single node.
Can you give an example of when you'd actually want to do this? > On a seperate topic, I would guess the syscall time is trivial compared > to the time to walk the page tables. I'd certainly agree. -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
