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

From: Miao Xie
Date: Wed Nov 23 2011 - 21:51:53 EST


On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:52:08 -0800 (pst), David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Miao Xie wrote:
>
>> Memory compaction will see an empty nodemask and do nothing, and then
>> we may fail to get several contiguous pages.
>>
>
> Where do we rely on a consistent nodemask for memory compaction?

Maybe I am overcautious.
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