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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: [patch -mm 2/2] mempolicy: use default_policy mode instead of MPOL_DEFAULT
From:       Andi Kleen <ak () suse ! de>
Date:       2008-03-08 23:19:19
Message-ID: 200803090019.19518.ak () suse ! de
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> Using MPOL_DEFAULT purely for falling back to the task or system-wide 
> policy, however, seems confusing.  The semantics seem to indicate that 
> MPOL_DEFAULT represents the system-wide default policy without any 
> preferred node or set of nodes to bind or interleave.  So if a VMA has a 
> policy of MPOL_DEFAULT then, to me, it seems like that indicates the 
> absence of a specific policy, not a mandate to fallback to the task 
> policy.

I designed MPOL_DEFAULT on vma originally to be a fallback to the task policy.

Absence of specific policy would be MPOL_PREFERRED with -1 node.

-Andi



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