Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030373AbWILTuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:50:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030288AbWILTuz (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:50:55 -0400 Received: from server99.tchmachines.com ([72.9.230.178]:48098 "EHLO server99.tchmachines.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030373AbWILTuy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:50:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:52:46 -0700 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai To: Christoph Lameter 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 Message-ID: <20060912195246.GA4039@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060912144518.GA4653@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server99.tchmachines.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - scalex86.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 19 On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:36:54AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > ... > 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 Hmm, I see, but with the above patch, if we ignore mempolicy for __GFP_THISNODE slab caches at alternate_node_alloc (which is pretty much all the slab caches) then we would be ignoring memplocies altogether no? Thanks, Kiran - 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/