From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEEA6B004D for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:17:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:17:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] hugetlb: add nodemask arg to huge page alloc, free and surplus adjust fcns Message-Id: <20090701141750.0e5d8066.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1246453238.23497.21.camel@lts-notebook> References: <20090630154716.1583.25274.sendpatchset@lts-notebook> <20090630154724.1583.55926.sendpatchset@lts-notebook> <20090701123830.GE16355@csn.ul.ie> <1246453238.23497.21.camel@lts-notebook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Lee Schermerhorn 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 List-ID: On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:00:38 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn 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? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org