From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D8226B0011 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 16:18:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DC1B47B.1010209@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 13:18:03 -0700 From: Andi Kleen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes References: <1304533058-18228-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <4DC1B151.7010300@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Balbir Singh , Johannes Weiner > Completely agreed, I think that's how it should be patched instead of only > touching the alloc_pages() allocation; we care much more about local node > than whether we're using vmalloc. Right now the problem is you end up in node 0 always and then run out of memory later on it on a large system. That's the problem I'm trying to solve ASAP The rest is much less important. -Andi -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org