add numad: daemon that manages application locality

pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "numad-0.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/numad.git/snapshot/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "08zd1yc3w00yv4mvvz5sq1gf91f6p2s9ljcd72m33xgnkglj60v4";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    ./numad-linker-flags.patch
+  ];
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace "install -m" "install -Dm"
+  '';
+
+  makeFlags = "prefix=$(out)";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A user-level daemon that monitors NUMA topology and processes resource consumption to facilitate good NUMA resource access";
+    homepage = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/numad;
+    license = licenses.lgpl21;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ iElectric ];
+  };
+}

pkgs/os-specific/linux/numad/numad-linker-flags.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 9eb3cc5c51d846c8c8b750a4eb55545d7b5fea6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:41:26 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] use LDLIBS for linker flags
+
+When you put -lfoo into the dependency line of make, it forces it to
+search /lib and /usr/lib for files to link against.  This can cause
+problems when trying to cross-compile or build for different ABIs.
+Use the standard LDLIBS variable instead.
+
+URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/505760
+Reported-by: Georgi Georgiev <chutzimir@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+---
+ Makefile | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index f3838b4..f2e9a6e 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ docdir := ${prefix}/share/doc
+ 
+ all: numad
+ 
+-numad: numad.o -lpthread
++LDLIBS := -lpthread
++numad: numad.o
+ 
+ AR ?= ar
+ RANLIB ?= ranlib
+-- 
+1.9.2

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -10353,6 +10353,8 @@ let
 
   numactl = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/numactl { };
 
+  numad = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/numad { };
+
   open-vm-tools = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/open-vm-tools {
     inherit (gnome) gtk gtkmm;
   };