Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756085AbaGWDRC (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:17:02 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:60737 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755259AbaGWDRA (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:17:00 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,714,1400050800"; d="scan'208";a="577350165" Message-ID: <53CF2925.3030803@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:16:53 +0800 From: Jiang Liu Organization: Intel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter , Tejun Heo CC: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , Mike Galbraith , Peter Zijlstra , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Vladimir Davydov , Johannes Weiner , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Rik van Riel , Wanpeng Li , Zhang Yanfei , Catalin Marinas , Jianyu Zhan , malc , Joonsoo Kim , Fabian Frederick , Tony Luck , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC Patch V1 07/30] mm: Use cpu_to_mem()/numa_mem_id() to support memoryless node References: <1405064267-11678-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> <1405064267-11678-8-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> <20140711144205.GA27706@htj.dyndns.org> <20140711152156.GB29137@htj.dyndns.org> <20140711160152.GC30865@htj.dyndns.org> <20140711162451.GD30865@htj.dyndns.org> <20140711182814.GE30865@htj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Tejun and Christoph, Thanks for your suggestions and discussion. Tejun really gives a good point to hide memoryless node interface from normal slab users. I will rework the patch set to go that direction. Regards! Gerry On 2014/7/12 3:11, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: >>> GFP_THISNODE is mostly used by allocators that need memory from specific >>> nodes. The use of numa_mem_id() there is useful because one will not >>> get any memory at all when attempting to allocate from a memoryless >>> node using GFP_THISNODE. >> >> As long as it's in allocator proper, it doesn't matter all that much >> but the changes are clearly not contained, are they? > > Well there is a proliferation of memory allocators recently. NUMA is often > a second thought in those. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/