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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V6 RESEND 2/3] NOT kernel/man-pages: man2/set_mempolicy.2: Add mode flag MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:42:33PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> ---
> man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
> index 68011eecb..3754b3e12 100644
> --- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2
> +++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
> @@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ A nonempty
> .I nodemask
> specifies node IDs that are relative to the set of
> node IDs allowed by the process's current cpuset.
> +.TP
> +.BR MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING " (since Linux 5.11)"
> +Enable the Linux kernel NUMA balancing for the task if it is supported
> +by kernel.
> +If the flag isn't supported by Linux kernel, return -1 and errno is
> +set to EINVAL.
> .PP
> .I nodemask
> points to a bit mask of node IDs that contains up to
> @@ -293,6 +299,9 @@ argument specified both

Should this be expanded more to clarify it applies to MPOL_BIND
specifically?

Maybe the first patch should be expanded more and explictly fail if
MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING is used with anything other than MPOL_BIND?

> .B MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
> and
> .BR MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES .
> +Or, the
> +.B MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING
> +isn't supported by the Linux kernel.

This will be difficult for an app to distinguish but we can't go back in
time and make this ENOSYS :(

The linux-api people might have more guidance but it may go to the
extent of including a small test program in the manual page for a
sequence that tests whether MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING works. They might have
a better recommendation on how it should be handled.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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