Re: [PATCH v2] cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Fri 27-05-11 16:27:34, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2011, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > > CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is used for UMA machines that are using DISCONTIGMEM 
> > > usually because they have very large holes; such machines don't need 
> > > things like mempolicies but do need the data structures that abstract 
> > > ranges of memory in the physical address space.  This build breakage 
> > > probably isn't restricted to only alpha, you could probably see it with at 
> > > least ia64 and mips as well.
> > 
> > Hmmm. I just find strange that some UMA arch uses functions like
> > {first,next}_online_node.
> > 
> 
> They shouldn't, but they do use NUMA data structures like pg_data_t for 
> DISCONTIGMEM.  The MAX_NUMNODES > 1 optimization in nodemask.h is to 
> prevent doing things like node_weight() on a nodemask when we know that 
> only one bit will ever be set, otherwise we could make it conditional on 
> CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES.

Thanks for the explanation.

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Michal Hocko
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