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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> In the presence of memoryless nodes, numa_node_id()/cpu_to_node() will
> return the current CPU's NUMA node, but that may not be where we expect
> to allocate from memory from. Instead, we should use
> numa_mem_id()/cpu_to_mem(). On one ppc64 system with a memoryless Node
> 0, this ends up saving nearly 500M of slab due to less fragmentation.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>


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