Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:16:16 -0700
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] perf bench futex: add NUMA support
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

>By default the application uses malloc() and all available CPUs. This
>patch introduces NUMA support which means:
>- memory is allocated node local via numa_alloc_local()
>- all CPUs of the specified NUMA node are used. This is also true if the
>  number of threads set is greater than the number of CPUs available on
>  this node.

Can't we just use numactl to bind cpus and memory to be node-local?

Thanks,
Davidlohr