Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030293AbWILRhU (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:37:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030294AbWILRhU (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:37:20 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:21172 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030293AbWILRhT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:37:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:36:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alok Kataria , "Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch] slab: Do not use mempolicy for kmalloc_node In-Reply-To: <20060912144518.GA4653@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20060912144518.GA4653@localhost.localdomain> 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: 757 Lines: 16 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > The slab should follow the specified memory policy for kmalloc allocations, > which it does. However, for kmalloc_node allocations, slab should > serve the object from the requested node irrespective of memory policy. > This seems to be broken in slab code. Following patch fixes this. This is not complete. Please see the discussion on GFP_THISNODE and the related patch to fix this issue http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=115505682122540&w=2 - 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/