On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:44:37AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:58:21PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:57:51AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > > > It had previously been difficult to describe these setups as memory > > > rangers were generally lumped into the NUMA node of the CPUs. New > > > platform attributes have been created and in use today that describe > > > the more complex memory hierarchies that can be created. > > > > > > > Could you please expand on this text -- how are these attributes > > exposed/consumed by both the kernel and user space? > > > > > This series' objective is to provide the attributes from such systems > > > that are useful for applications to know about, and readily usable with > > > existing tools and libraries. > > > > I presume these tools and libraries are numactl and mbind()? > > Yes, and numactl is used the examples provided in both changelogs and > documentation in this series. Do you want to see those in the cover > letter as well? Not really, I was just reading through the cover letter and was curious Balbir Singh.
