Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:22:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> > Indeed, this probably needs to be validated... Sigh, more interleaving
> > of policies and everything else...
> 
> Hrm, more importantly, isn't this an existing issue? Maybe should be
> resolved separately from the one zonelist patches.

GFP_THISNODE with alloc_pages() currently yields an allocation from the 
first node of the MPOL_BIND zonelist. So its the lowest node of the set.

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