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From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:

> Christoph wrote:
> > you need to create multiple 
> > levels of directories in /proc/<pid>/xx
> 
> You do?
> 
> Where's the new multiple directory levels in the two files:
> 
> 	/proc/<pid>/numa_policy		# contains one word
> 	/proc/<pid>/numa_nodelist	# contains one nodelist
> 
> There are some obvious negatives to this idea, but having to
> "create multiple levels of directories" doesn't seem to be
> one of them.

One would need /proc/<pid>/<vma>/policy and /proc/<pid>/<vma>/nodelist 
to control the allocation in the vmas.