Christoph Lameter wrote on Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:40 PM > This patch adds a new proc entry for each process called "numa_policy". > > If read this file will output a text string describing the memory policy > for the process. > A new policy may be written to "numa_policy" in order to change the memory > policy for the process. The following strings may be written to > /proc/<pid>/numa_policy: > > Additionally the patch also adds write capability to the "numa_maps". One > can write a VMA address followed by the policy to that file to change the > mempolicy of an individual virtual memory area. i.e.
This looks a lot like a back door access to libnuma and numactl capability. Are you sure libnuma and numactl won't suite your needs? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
