From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-numa@vger.org,
nacc@us.ibm.com, rientjes@google.com, agl@us.ibm.com,
apw@canonical.com, eric.whitney@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] hugetlb: add nodemask arg to huge page alloc, free and surplus adjust fcns
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:17:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701141750.0e5d8066.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1246453238.23497.21.camel@lts-notebook>
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:38 -0400
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
> > I strongly suspect that the same node being used until allocation
> > failure instead of round-robin is an oversight and not deliberate at
> > all. I can't think of a good reason for boot-allocation to behave
> > significantly different to runtime-allocation.
> >
> > This could be a seperate patch just for consideration in isolation but I
> > for one have no problem with it. If you split out this patch, feel free
> > to add an Ack from me.
>
> OK. If this series doesn't fly--e.g., we take another approach--I will
> definitely split this out. If Andrew wants it separate for the change
> log, I can do that as well.
Can't be bothered, really. If you think the fix might be useful to
someone running a 2.6.31 or earlier kernel then yes, it would be polite
to split out a minimal backportable fix?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 15:47 [RFC 0/3] hugetlb: constrain allocation/free based on task mempolicy Lee Schermerhorn
2009-06-30 15:47 ` [RFC 1/3] hugetlb: add nodemask arg to huge page alloc, free and surplus adjust fcns Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 12:38 ` Mel Gorman
2009-07-01 13:00 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 21:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-06-30 15:48 ` [RFC 2/3] hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicy Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-07-01 16:19 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 18:29 ` Mel Gorman
2009-07-01 19:45 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-30 15:48 ` [RFC 3/3] hugetlb: update hugetlb documentation for mempolicy based management Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 17:28 ` [RFC 0/3] hugetlb: constrain allocation/free based on task mempolicy Lee Schermerhorn
2009-07-01 17:53 ` Mel Gorman
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