Re: numactl using it's own affinity to determine CPU set

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> Hi Petr,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Petr Holasek wrote:
> > btw, Cliff, can you remember what was the reason for this change in some
> > version after 1.0?
> > 
> > Petr
> 
> Memory nodes allowed was made cpuset-aware by the below patch.
> I'm not quite sure if this is the change you are asking about.
> 
> patch 0804_ls_patch2
> From: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:34:37 -0400
> 
> Depends-on:  MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED kernel patch
> Provide libnuma API for MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED flag.
> Return nodes allowed by the application's current cpuset context
> via new API numa_get_mems_allowed().
> 
> +.BR numa_get_mems_allowed()
> +returns the mask of nodes from which the process is allowed to allocate
> +memory in it's current cpuset context.

Thank you!

I'll check it.

Petr