Re: [RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes

2013-11-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > ( If you think this is too dangerous for too little benefit then > > I'll drop this separate tree and will send the original commits in > > the merge window. ) > > Ugh. I hate hate hate the timing, an

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes

2013-10-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > ( If you think this is too dangerous for too little benefit then > I'll drop this separate tree and will send the original commits in > the merge window. ) Ugh. I hate hate hate the timing, and this is much larger and scarier than what

[RFC GIT PULL] NUMA-balancing memory corruption fixes

2013-10-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, * Mel Gorman wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Off-list we talked with Peter about the fact that automatic NUMA > balancing as merged in 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 shortly may corrupt > userspace memory. [...] So these fixes are definitely not something I'd like to sit on, but as I said to you at the