RE: [RFC PATCH 0/4]: affinity-on-next-touch

[Stefan Lankes]

> >
> 
> 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

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