From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751113AbWH2HQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:16:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750833AbWH2HQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:16:05 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:63151 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932156AbWH2HQC (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:16:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:15:12 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Andrew Morton Cc: nathanl@austin.ibm.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ntl@pobox.com, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, anton@samba.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: hotunplug cpus and mems in all cpusets Message-Id: <20060829001512.36839323.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060828231917.6f4bb9af.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060829060824.6621.28300.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20060828231917.6f4bb9af.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-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 Andrew wrote: > Did you consider failing the hotremove request instead? Eh ... we'd end up with another complaint from the hotplug folks, in another year, when some obscure constraint on nested cpusets thwarted their efforts to unplug something. It's best if cpusets just deals with it somehow, and doesn't complain about the comings and goings of hardware. At least, that's my take on it ... -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401