On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:31 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > MPOL_DEFAULT is a certain type of behavior right now that applications > rely on. If you change that then these applications will no longer work as > expected. > > MPOL_DEFAULT is currently set to be the default policy on bootup. You can > change that of course and allow setting MPOL_DEFAULT manually for > applications that rely on old behavor. Instead set the default behavior on > bootup for MPOL_HOME_NODE. > > 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? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href