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SubjectRe: NUMA API for Linux
Hi!

> This NUMA API doesn't not attempt to implement page migration or anything
> else complicated: all it does is to police the allocation when a page
> is first allocation or when a page is reallocated after swapping. Currently
> only support for shared memory and anonymous memory is there; policy for
> file based mappings is not implemented yet (although they get implicitely
> policied by the default process policy)
>
> It adds three new system calls: mbind to change the policy of a VMA,
> set_mempolicy to change the policy of a process, get_mempolicy to retrieve
> memory policy. User tools (numactl, libnuma, test programs, manpages) can be

set_mempolicy is pretty ugly name. Why is prctl inadequate?
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