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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@fenrus.demon.nl>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LSE <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Martin Bligh <mjbligh@us.ibm.com>,
	Michael Hohnbaum <hohnbaum@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] Memory Binding API v0.3 2.5.41
Date: 10 Oct 2002 12:22:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034248971.2044.118.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034244381.3629.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:06, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > +/**
> > + * sys_mem_setbinding - set the memory binding of a process
> > + * @pid: pid of the process
> > + * @memblks: new bitmask of memory blocks
> > + * @behavior: new behavior
> > + */
> > +asmlinkage long sys_mem_setbinding(pid_t pid, unsigned long memblks, 
> > +				    unsigned int behavior)
> > +{
> 
> Do you really think exposing low level internals as memory layout / zone
> split up to userspace is a good idea ? (and worth it given that the VM
> already has a cpu locality preference?)

At least in the embedded world that level is a good idea. I'm not sure
about the syscall interface. An "unsigned long" mask of blocks sounds
like a good way to ensure a broken syscall in the future

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-10 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-10  1:12 Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10  3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 18:29   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10  4:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-10 18:43   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10  9:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-10 18:55   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10 10:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-10 11:22   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-10 11:28     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10 19:09       ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10 19:06     ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-10 19:01   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-13 22:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-15  0:14   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-15  0:20     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-15  0:38       ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-15  0:43         ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-15  0:51           ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-15  0:58             ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-15  0:55         ` [Lse-tech] " john stultz
2002-10-15  1:08           ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-15  1:20             ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-15  1:29               ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-15  1:40                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-15  1:57                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-15  1:08           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-15  1:16             ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-15 17:21     ` Eric W. Biederman

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