Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:12:26 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: NUMA API for Linux |
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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? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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