Re: Rewording language in mbind(2) to "threads" not "processes"
From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-13 18:22:46
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
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@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ If, however, the shared memory region was created with the .B SHM_HUGETLB flag, the huge pages will be allocated according to the policy specified -only if the page allocation is caused by the process that calls +only if the page allocation is caused by the thread that calls +.\" +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "process" to "thread" in the preceding line?
No leave it as process. Pages get one map refcount per page table that references them (meaning a process). More than one map refcount means that multiple processes have mapped the page.
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@@ -300,7 +303,10 @@ is specified in .IR flags , then the kernel will attempt to move all the existing pages in the memory range so that they follow the policy. -Pages that are shared with other processes will not be moved. +Pages that are shared with other threads will not be moved. +.\" +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "processes" to "threads" in the preceding line? +.\"
Leave it. Same as before.
If then the kernel will attempt to move all existing pages in the memory range -regardless of whether other processes use the pages. -The calling process must be privileged +regardless of whether other threads use the pages. +.\" +.\" ??? Is it correct to change "processes" to "threads" in the preceding line? +.\"
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