Re: [PATCH 4/4] Swap migration V3: sys_migrate_pages interface

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 12:07:24 EST


On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:

> know what you intend to update mems_allowed to. Currently, a task
> mems_allowed is only updated in task context, from its cpusets
> mems_allowed. The task mems_allowed is updated automatically coming
> into the page allocation code, if the tasks mems_generation doesn't
> match its cpusets mems_generation.

Therefore if mems_allowed is accessed from outside of the
task then it may not be up to date, right?


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