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DateSat, 7 Feb 2004 20:06:35 +1100
FromAnton Blanchard <>
SubjectRe: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
> Is this a thing which all NUMA machines want to be doing?
So far we have ppc64 and x86-64. I suspect the others will be OK with
it. 

> Should this not search for the emptiest node?

Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
being allocated.

> Is non-__init code allowed to call __init code?  I thought that caused
> linkage errors on some setups.  Pretty sure about that.  I think, maybe.

Maybe. Its news to me.

Anton
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