Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:37:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v2 |
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> It'll take me a while to absorb the patch, so I'll just ask: Where does > the zonelist for the argument come from? If the the bind policy > zonelist is removed, then does it come from a node? There'll be only
Right.
> one per node with your other patches, right? So you had to have a node > id, to look up the zonelist? Do you need the zonelist elsewhere, > outside of alloc_pages()? If not, why not just let alloc_pages look it > up from a starting node [which I think can be determined from the > policy]?
Exactly. The starting node is passed to alloc_pages_nodemask. We could just pass -1 for numa_node_id().
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