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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, pj@sgi.com, jes@sgi.com,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [1/3] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore cpuset/memory policy restrictions.
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:41:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060810124137.6da0fdef.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608080930380.27620@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:33:46 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> Add a new gfp flag __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes. This flag
> is essential if a kernel component requires memory to be located on a
> certain node. It will be needed for alloc_pages_node() to force allocation
> on the indicated node and for alloc_pages() to force allocation on the
> current node.

This adds a little bit of overhead to non-numa kernels.  I think that
overhead could be eliminated if we were to do

#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA
#define __GFP_THISNODE 0
#endif

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 16:33 Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 16:34 ` [2/3] sys_move_pages: Do not fall back to other nodes Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 16:37   ` [3/3] Guarantee that the uncached allocator gets pages on the correct node Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 16:56 ` [1/3] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore cpuset/memory policy restrictions Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-08 17:01   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 16:59 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-08 17:03   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 17:16     ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-08 17:51       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 17:47     ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-08 17:59       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 18:18         ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-08 18:49           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 20:35             ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-09  9:33               ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-09  1:34 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-09  2:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-10 19:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-11  3:16   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-11 18:08     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-11 18:15       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-11 18:42         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-11 18:51           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-11 19:15             ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-11 19:16               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-11 19:41           ` Dave McCracken

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