[procps] Re: top: NUMA node CPU utilization support

  • From: Jim Warner <james.warner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:00:22 -0500

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 13:16 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> For the libnuma support in top it could be an option to make this
> not only a build/compile option but also a runtime option. OK this
> may required some magic like to declare the functions numa_max_node()
> and numa_node_of_cpu() as weak symbols and load the libnuma.so.1 on
> demand if available but this may at least solve the problem that
> most desktop users are not interested in NUMA support.

Werner, thank you for the reply.

I like the idea of dynamically loading/linking solely within top.  That
way there are no explicit dependencies and everyone would be happy.

I'll explore this possibility...

Thanks,
Jim



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