Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

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On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > Add a (slow) kmalloc_policy? Strict Object round robin for interleave 
> > right? It probably needs its own RR counter otherwise it disturbs the per 
> > task page RR.
> 
> I guess interleave could be nice for other things, but for this, I
> just want MPOL_BIND to work. The problem is that the pagetable copying
> etc codepaths cover a lot of code and some of it (eg pagetable allocation)
> is used for other paths as well.. so I was just hoping to do something
> less intrusive for now if possible.

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.

Or is there some way to execute the code on the target cpu? That may be 
the easiest solution.
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