clarify or replace libnuma interface
Issue
- The libnuma-devel package provides the interface defined in numa.h.
- This library is useful in that it is intended to provide a consistent interface higher level than the proc files but lower level than hwloc which abstracts things a bit too much.
- The libnuma interface has drawbacks in that:
- It is not well documented.
- The API has design flaws.
- There are many bugs logged against it.
- Help upstream define a well engineered API which is well tested.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- libnuma
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