Re: [patch for-3.2-rc3] cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowedfor mempolicy or disjoint nodemask

[Miao Xie]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:26:40 -0800 (pst), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Miao Xie wrote:
> 
>> That nodemask is also protected by get_mems_allowed().
>>
> 
> So what's the problem with the patch? 

Memory compaction will see an empty nodemask and do nothing, and then
we may fail to get several contiguous pages.


> Can I add your acked-by?

Sure, no problem.
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