From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:02:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement In-Reply-To: <20070803005700.GD14775@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070731054142.GB11306@wotan.suse.de> <200707311114.09284.ak@suse.de> <20070802034201.GA32631@wotan.suse.de> <20070803002639.GC14775@wotan.suse.de> <20070803005700.GD14775@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Ok. So MPOL_BIND on a single node. We would have to save the current > > memory policy on the stack and then restore it later. Then you would need > > a special call anyways. > > Well the memory policy will already be set to MPOL_BIND at this point. > The slab allocator I think would just have to honour the node at the > object level. Who set the policy? The parent process may have its own memory policy. If you set that then the earlier policy is lost. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org