Re: [RFC] cpuset relative memory policies - second choice

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

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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