[Lse-tech] First version of CpuMemSets patch available on SourceForge

[Paul J. <pj...@en...>]

I have uploaded the first version of the CpuMemSets patch to
the LSE project on SourceForge.  It is the CpuMemSets-0.01
Release of the NUMA package.


This is the first release of CpuMemSets.  Included are:
1) kernel patch for linux-2.4.17 + IA64 patch + discontig
2) libcpumemsets.c C library for accessing new calls, and
3) a Python module for accessing these same calls.

The included README file spells out in more detail what is
included and what is missing.  A couple of capabilities are
not yet coded, and the packaging, build and install support
is primitive at best.  No man pages nor regression test
scripts are available yet.  The best available documentation
is separately available as a Design Note on this LSE
project of SourceForge, at:

  http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=8463&group_id=8875

CpuMemSets is intended to provide a low level, general
purpose facility in the Linux kernel for use on large
systems, including NUMA systems with dozens or hundreds of
processors and nodes, to specify on which processor a task
may be scheduled, and on which node a memory region may
acquire memory.

This Open Source contribution is brought to you by the
Linux Scalability Project of Silicon Graphics, with many
thanks to others on the SourceForge LSE project who have
been providing important contributions to the design.

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