Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:10:18 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Migrate pages from a ccNUMA node to another |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 04:39:59 -0600 Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> One thing that would probably help considerably, in addition to the > syscall you seem to be proposing, would be an addition to the > task_struct. The new field would specify which node to attempt > allocations on. Before doing a fork, the parent would do a > syscall to set this field to the node the child will target. It > would then call fork. The PGDs et al and associated memory, including > the task struct and pages would end up being allocated based upon > that numa node's allocation preference.
You just described the process policy of NUMA API.
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