Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932521AbWA1FI0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:08:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932522AbWA1FI0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:08:26 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:63678 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932521AbWA1FI0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:08:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:08:10 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Matthew Dobson Cc: clameter@engr.sgi.com, 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 Message-Id: <20060127210810.54177d6d.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <43DAC222.4060805@us.ibm.com> References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138233093.27293.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43D953C4.5020205@us.ibm.com> <43D95A2E.4020002@us.ibm.com> <43D96633.4080900@us.ibm.com> <43D96A93.9000600@us.ibm.com> <20060127025126.c95f8002.pj@sgi.com> <43DAC222.4060805@us.ibm.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.7 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 23 Matthew wrote: > > I too am inclined to prefer the __GFP_CRITICAL approach over this. > > OK. Chalk one more up for that solution... I don't think my vote should count for much. See below. > This is supposed to be an implementation of Andrea's suggestion. There are > no hooks in ANY page_alloc.c code paths. These patches touch mempool code > and some slab code, but not any page allocator code. Yeah - you're right. I misread your patch set. Sorry for wasting your time. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - 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/