From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764334AbZFLNv3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:51:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934232AbZFLNsm (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:48:42 -0400 Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.7.72]:47238 "EHLO mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933254AbZFLNsk (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:48:40 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,209,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="8036921" From: Stefan Lankes To: "'Brice Goglin'" Cc: "'Andi Kleen'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-numa@vger.kernel.org, Boris Bierbaum References: <000c01c9d212$4c244720$e46cd560$@rwth-aachen.de> <87zldjn597.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <000001c9eac4$cb8b6690$62a233b0$@rwth-aachen.de> <20090612103251.GJ25568@one.firstfloor.org> <004001c9eb53$71991300$54cb3900$@rwth-aachen.de> <4A324A4E.1060405@inria.fr> In-reply-to: Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 0/4]: affinity-on-next-touch Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:48:36 +0200 Organization: Chair for Operating Systems, RWTH Aachen University Message-id: <004601c9eb64$7c23fcc0$746bf640$@rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-index: AcnrWXHDyy/c1RqIQvS1JLHUD9yOpQAAVQdAAAItwQA= Content-language: de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > MPOL_MF_LAZY is used as flag and does not specify a new policy. > Therefore, MPOL_MF_LAZY isn't stored in a VMA. The flag is only used to > detect that the system call mbind has to unmap these pages. > In one of my previous e-mails, I wrote that Lee use the normal NUMA memory policies. This statement was unclear. Lee's patches define no new memory policy. He adds only a new flag. The using of mbind looks for me smarter as the using of madvise. Stefan