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SubjectRe: [RFC, PATCH] SLAB : [NUMA] keep nodeid in struct page instead of struct slab
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 3/21/07, Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote:
> > None of that please. The page flags already contain a node number that is
> > accessible via page_to_nid(). Just make sure that we never put a slab onto
> > the wrong node.
>
> Sounds good. Do you know for a fact that we don't or are you just
> afraid we have a bug?

I tried to clean it up during the GFP_THISNODE work but there was some
issue on powerpc where we needed fallback for bootstrap. There may be more
trouble there. Checking the allocs where we do not use GFP_THISNODE should
get you there.

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