Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: kill MPOL_F_LOCAL bit

[Andi Kleen]

On 5/13/2021 12:25 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
> mempolicy: kill MPOL_F_LOCAL bit
>
> Now the only remaining case of actual 'local' policy faked by
> 'prefer' policy plus MPOL_F_LOCAL bit is:
>
> A valid 'prefer' policy with a valid 'preferred' node is 'rebind'
> to a nodemask which doesn't contains the 'preferred' node, then it
> will handle allocation with 'local' policy.
>
> Add a new 'MPOL_F_LOCAL_TEMP' bit for this case, and kill the
> MPOL_F_LOCAL bit, which could simplify the code much.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


-Andi