From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758269AbXHGUhl (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:37:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764877AbXHGUha (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:37:30 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:43219 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934822AbXHGUh3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:37:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:37:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Mel Gorman , Andi Kleen , Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE In-Reply-To: <20070807111430.f35c03c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070802172118.GD23133@skynet.ie> <200708040002.18167.ak@suse.de> <20070806121558.e1977ba5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200708062231.49247.ak@suse.de> <20070806215541.GC6142@skynet.ie> <20070806221252.aa1e9048.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070807165546.GA7603@skynet.ie> <20070807111430.f35c03c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's even more constrained than that. It only applies to the MPOL_BIND > > policy when kernelcore= is specified. The other policies work the same > > as they ever did. > > so.. should we forget about merging the horrible-hack? Support MPOL_BIND is a basic NUMA feature. This is going to make .23 unusable for us if kernelcore= is used. If we cannot use kernelcore then NUMA systems cannot use the features that depend on kernelcore.