Hey,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 02:51:12AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
Nobody is depending on shit, the patch is removing a completely pointless memory allocation in braindead cpuset code. What you think is "harmful" or "more harmful" is irrelevant, but nobody said anything about depending on that behavior to do anything.
Weren't you talking something of that effect in memcg? Or was it Michal? At any rate, I think you're missing the point why Li replied that it's harmless. He, I think, meant that it doesn't make any semantical difference to userland, so your reply saying that it's not harmless listing the failure mode under memory pressure seemed misleading, so I thought clarification was necessary. Probably my (false?) memory of you talking about that contributed. Anyways, we agree. Don't depend on it.
Thanks.