On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> sorry if I'm being dense - what is actually being protected against
> here? The only thing I can think of is one process causing performance
> degradation to another by moving it's memory further from it's cpu on a
> NUMA machine.
Right.
> Is there something more? (And is what I'm guessing even possible?)
In the case of move_pages() a process can find out where the pages of
another process were allocated.
> I'm not arguing against this hook, just wondering whether there's
> more to this than I see.
I was wondering myself.
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