Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:45:08 -0500 | From | Gregory Price <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/mbind: Introduce process_mbind() syscall for external memory binding |
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 01:39:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:31:05 -0600 Vinicius Petrucci <vpetrucci@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Vinicius Tavares Petrucci <vtavarespetr@micron.com> > > > > This patch introduces `process_mbind()` to enable a userspace orchestrator with > > an understanding of another process's memory layout to alter its memory policy. > > > I'm having deja vu. Not 10 minutes ago, Gregory sent out a patchset > which does the same thing. > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231122211200.31620-1-gregory.price@memverge.com > > Please share notes ;)
Heh, we discussed doing this at linux plumbers, as well as a long set of RFC's related to weighted mempolicies.
Guess we were in a bit of a race to RFC without knowing!
more context: mhocko suggested this interface would be welcome and useful before the introduction of weighted inteleave.
link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZVNBMW8iJIGDyp0y@tiehlicka/
~Gregory
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