Re: [PATCH 2/2 v6] mm/mempolicy: Don't create weight sysfs for memoryless nodes

From: Gregory Price
Date: Tue Mar 11 2025 - 11:52:48 EST


On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 06:51:45PM +0900, Yunjeong Mun wrote:
> Hi Gregory, thanks for kind explanation.
>
> We believe our propsed hot plug patch should be added as a hot-fix to v6.14,
> because it can be addressed independently of auto-configuring feature.
> Rakie will send v2 patch soon.
>

I think having the answer to at least the following question documented
is needed. I'll wait for v2 to do another review.

> > 2) We need to clearly define what the weight of a node will be when
> > in manual mode and a node goes (memory -> no memory -> memory)
> > a) does it retain it's old, manually set weight?
> > b) does it revert to 1?
> >

~Gregory