Re: [rfc][patch] Memory Binding API v0.3 2.5.41

From: Matthew Dobson (colpatch@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 13:55:21 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 03:12, Matthew Dobson wrote:
>
>>Greetings & Salutations,
>> Here's a wonderful patch that I know you're all dying for... Memory
>>Binding! It works just like CPU Affinity (binding) except that it binds
>>a processes memory allocations (just buddy allocator for now) to
>>specific memory blocks.
>
> If the VM works right just doing CPU binding ought to be enough, surely?
You'll have to look at the response I wrote to Andrew's question along
the same
lines... This patch is for processes who feel that the VM *isn't* doing
quite what they want, and want different behavior.

Cheers!

-Matt

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