Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750744AbVIXMx1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:53:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750745AbVIXMx1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:53:27 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:34453 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744AbVIXMx0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:53:26 -0400 Message-ID: <43354C0E.5050001@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:52:30 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alok Kataria CC: Christoph Lameter , Petr Vandrovec , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849 References: <433458B6.7000008@calsoftinc.com> In-Reply-To: <433458B6.7000008@calsoftinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 19 Alok Kataria wrote: > > IMO the slab->nodeid field just lets us know to which nodes list3 is > this slab attached, irrespective of the node from > which node the memory was got. > Correct. Otherwise the code wouldn't work on ia32 NUMAQ systems: They have the whole ZONE_NORMAL in node 0. When a slab is allocated, it's assigned to the node that did the alloc, regardless of the physical location of the memory. -- Manfred - 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/