From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263834AbUECShz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:37:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263850AbUECShz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:37:55 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:19091 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263834AbUECShy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:37:54 -0400 Message-ID: <40969175.2020603@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:37:41 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040501 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: NUMA API References: <409201BE.9000909@redhat.com> <20040430083017.GB1298@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040430083017.GB1298@holomorphy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I very > very strongly suggest that you take up each of these issues with him And what exactly do you think this is about? > so > that they can be addressed as individual incremental improvements That's not a possibility. The interface is simply inadequate. I do not claim to be the expert when it comes to all the fancy NUMA functionality. But I surely can recognize a broken library interface. *That's* my concern. I do not yet care too much about the kernel interface. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖