Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

Andi Kleen
2005-02-12T14:48:35Z

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:34:32AM -0500, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:26 -0800, Ray Bryant wrote:
> > This patch introduces the sys_page_migrate() system call:
> >
> > sys_page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes);
>
> are you really sure you want to expose nodes to userspace via an ABI
> this solid and never changing? To me that feels somewhat like too much
> of an internal thing to expose that will mean that those internals are
> now set in stone due to the interface...

They're already exposed through mbind/set_mempolicy/get_mempolicy and sysfs
of course.

-Andi