From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DA5CD19.80603@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:55:21 -0700 From: Matthew Dobson Reply-To: colpatch@us.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] Memory Binding API v0.3 2.5.41 References: <3DA4D3E4.6080401@us.ibm.com> <1034240403.1745.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, LSE , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , Michael Hohnbaum List-ID: Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 03:12, Matthew Dobson wrote: > >>Greetings & Salutations, >> Here's a wonderful patch that I know you're all dying for... Memory >>Binding! It works just like CPU Affinity (binding) except that it binds >>a processes memory allocations (just buddy allocator for now) to >>specific memory blocks. > > If the VM works right just doing CPU binding ought to be enough, surely? You'll have to look at the response I wrote to Andrew's question along the same lines... This patch is for processes who feel that the VM *isn't* doing quite what they want, and want different behavior. Cheers! -Matt -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/