Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030203AbWAZXPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:15:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030219AbWAZXPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:15:52 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:55985 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030203AbWAZXPv (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:15:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Matthew Dobson cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware In-Reply-To: <43D953C4.5020205@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138233093.27293.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43D953C4.5020205@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 19 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Not all requests for memory from a specific node are performance > enhancements, some are for correctness. With large machines, especially as alloc_pages_node and friends do not guarantee allocation on that specific node. That argument for "correctness" is bogus. > > You do not need this.... > I do not agree... There is no way that you would need this patch. - 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/