Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/26] mm, mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware

Christoph Lameter
2012-03-19T19:07:09Z

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > 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?

True. MPOL_LOCAL would be a good choice.