Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:25:15 -0700 |
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On Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:13 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Interesting. This may attempt to allocate from offlined nodes, assuming > one adds on sufficient hotplug bits atop mainline and/or -mm. The > following almost does it hotplug-safe except that it needs to enter the > allocator with preemption disabled and drop the preempt_count > internally to it.
Can we make alloc_pages_node take offline nodes instead? Maybe it could just allocate from the next nearest node or something?
> I suspect we are better off punting this in the direction of hotplug > people than trying to address it ourselves. I think we should go with > this now, as the node hotplug bits are yet to hit the tree.
Yeah, agreed.
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