From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758550AbXKAR02 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:26:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753005AbXKAR0U (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:26:20 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:46389 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752920AbXKAR0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:26:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:26:16 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Christoph Lameter Cc: rientjes@google.com, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset relative memory policies - second choice Message-Id: <20071101102616.826d45a1.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20071031061729.18174.60384.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20071031131949.b91bf383.pj@sgi.com> <20071031214719.81f8293a.pj@sgi.com> <20071031233352.959c32d0.pj@sgi.com> <20071101090612.e0c86ddb.pj@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph wrote: > The library interface can set flags to modify behavior. A library such as libnuma can set them, yes, but not everyone uses libnuma. Basically everyone uses the standard C library, glibc, which has the system call wrappers, but these wrappers should not be setting optional flags. We're going around in circles here, Christoph. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401