Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [06/44] numa: fix slab_node(MPOL_BIND) | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:37:06 +0100 |
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Le mardi 07 décembre 2010 à 20:17 -0800, Greg KH a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:03:42PM -0500, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > > > I think this should be numa_mem_id(). Given the documented purpose of > > slab_node(), we want a node from which page allocation is likely to > > succeed. numa_node_id() can return a memoryless node for, e.g., some > > configurations of some HP ia64 platforms. numa_mem_id() was introduced > > to return that same node from which "local" mempolicy would allocate > > pages. > > So should the upstream patch be changed?
We certainly can convert most numa_node_id() calls to numa_mem_id() ones, but it wont be backported to 2.6.32, 2.6.34 & 2.6.27 :)
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