On Wed 13-10-21 19:27:03, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: [...] > Another option is to keep this mbind(2) specific and overload flags to be > the preferred nodeid. > > mbind(va, len, MPOL_PREFERRED_STRICT, nodemask, max_node, preferred_node); First of all I do not think you really want to create a new memory policy for this. Not to mention that PREFERRED_STRICT is kinda weird in the first place but one could argue that a preference of the first node to try is not really specific to BIND/PREFERRED_MANY. Overloading flags is a nogo. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
