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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2008-04-28 13:12:30 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 19:58:19 +0400
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mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag
Adds another optional mode flag, MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES, that specifies nodemasks passed via set_mempolicy() or mbind() should be considered relative to the current task's mems_allowed. When the mempolicy is created, the passed nodemask is folded and mapped onto the current task's mems_allowed. For example, consider a task using set_mempolicy() to pass MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES with a nodemask of 1-3. If current's mems_allowed is 4-7, the effected nodemask is 5-7 (the second, third, and fourth node of mems_allowed). If the same task is attached to a cpuset, the mempolicy nodemask is rebound each time the mems are changed. Some possible rebinds and results are: mems result 1-3 1-3 1-7 2-4 1,5-6 1,5-6 1,5-7 5-7 Likewise, the zonelist built for MPOL_BIND acts on the set of zones assigned to the resultant nodemask from the relative remap. In the MPOL_PREFERRED case, the preferred node is remapped from the currently effected nodemask to the relative nodemask. This mempolicy mode flag was conceived of by Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>. Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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