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

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Message-Id: <20071101102616.826d45a1.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:26:16 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....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

Christoph wrote:
> The library interface can set flags to modify behavior.

A library such as libnuma can set them, yes, but not everyone uses
libnuma.  Basically everyone uses the standard C library, glibc, which
has the system call wrappers, but these wrappers should not be setting
optional flags.

We're going around in circles here, Christoph.

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