On Tue, 29 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > I don't know about cpusets in details, but at least with NUMA, this is not an > apple-to-apple comparison. a NUMA node is not meant to contain you. A > container is, and that is why it is called a container. Cpusets contains sets of nodes. A cpusets "contains" nodes. These sets are associated with applications. > NUMA just means what is the *best* node to put my memory. > Now, if you actually say, through you syscalls "this is the node it should > live in", then you have a constraint, that to the best of my knowledge is > respected. Eith cpusets it means that memory needs to come from an assigned set of nodes. > Now isolation here, is done in the container boundary. (cgroups, to be > generic). Yes and with cpusets it is done at the cpuset boundary. Very much the same. -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>