From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932267AbWBVHnK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:43:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932250AbWBVHnK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:43:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:33251 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932245AbWBVHnJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:43:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:41:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, holt@sgi.com, bcasavan@sgi.com, cr@sap.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing Message-Id: <20060221234104.7cf4e84c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20060221183004.72ffa011.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hugh Dickins wrote: > > But perhaps I should expand the mention of CONFIG_NUMA in tmpfs.txt, > to explain the issue, and suggest that "mpol=" be used in remounts > rather than automatic mounts on systems where it might be a problem. > I'll dream up some wording later. Yes, a remount is the way this feature should be used. > > [ Vaguely suprised that tmpfs isn't using match_token()... ] > > I did briefly consider that back in the days when I noticed a host of > fs filesystems got converted. But didn't see any point in messing > with what was already working. Haven't looked recently: would it > actually be a useful change to make? I guess it'd be nice to do for uniformity's sake, but it's hardly pressing. I have a vague memory that the ext3 conversion actually increased .text size, which was a bit irritating.