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Date:      Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:44:13 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT/CFR: NUMA policy branch
Message-ID:  <1443707.QHq1OS6BQP@akita>
In-Reply-To: <559CB61F.2070301@freebsd.org>
References:  <CAJ-Vmo=SnqXTF5m65haKqrVf699zinyXs%2BQdvR6V88CW7vooCw@mail.gmail.com> <2926903.YAk7qUEGf9@akita> <559CB61F.2070301@freebsd.org>

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On Tuesday 07 July 2015 22:33:19 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 7/7/15 7:43 PM, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 July 2015 15:53:18 Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >>> I did not read further, the patch is half-done at best.
> >> 
> >> That's lovely. Meanwhile, people are actively using this thing.
> > 
> > It may not be perfect, but it's way more than half done.  You might object
> > to introducing the syscalls, but procctl is still annoyingly limited.
> (not yelling at you Rui)... but really... Is that the problem?!!? Just
> write a userland library to abstract the kernel interface!

How can a library help?  If you can't tell the kernel to apply a policy per-
TID (procctl works by PID), it's useless for multi-threaded applications.

-- 
Rui Paulo



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