Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:

> Ingo wrote:
> > Could you perhaps outline two actual use-cases 
> > that would need two cpusets with different policies,
> > on the same box?
> 
> We normally run with different policies, in the same box, on different 
> cpusets at the same time.  But this might be because some cpusets 
> -need- the memory spreading, and the others that don't are left to the 
> default policy.

so in practice, the memory spreading is in fact a global setting, used
by all cpusets that matter? That seems to support Andrew's observation
that our assumptions / defaults are bad, pretty much independently of
the workload.

	Ingo
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