linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] cpuset relative memory policies

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711011006070.29468@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, Lee.Schermerhorn@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de
Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset relative memory policies - second choice

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Paul Jackson wrote:

> > > Forcing coders to specify the same detail in multiple places, when
> > > there is no way to validate their consistency, doesn't force them
> > > to think or do it right.  It increases the error rate due to
> > 
> > There are always wrappers for system calls. The flags will be set in 
> > these.
> 
> We were discussing libnuma here, not glibc.  The system call wrappers
> are in glibc.  System call wrappers should not be setting optional
> flags.  They should just make the system call -- do whatever magic it
> takes to get the provided arguments into the right registers or other
> conventionally determined places, and invoke the necessary machine
> instruction to trap into the kernel.

The library interface can set flags to modify behavior.
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