Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/26] mm, mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Mar 19 2012 - 15:07:08 EST


On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > So the default system behavior would be MPOL_HOME_NODE but it could be
> > overriding by numactl to allow old apps to run as they are used to run.
>
> Ah, OK. Although that's a mightily confusing usage of the word DEFAULT.
> How about instead we make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy and allow explicitly
> setting that?

True. MPOL_LOCAL would be a good choice.

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