From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A11926B01B2 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 01:41:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so1368559bwz.14 for ; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:41:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100521211452.659982351@quilx.com> <20100521211537.530913777@quilx.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:41:19 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC V2 SLEB 01/14] slab: Introduce a constant for a unspecified node. From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, David Rientjes wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 May 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> >> > kmalloc_node() and friends can be passed a constant -1 to indicate >> > that no choice was made for the node from which the object needs to >> > come. >> > >> > Add a constant for this. >> > >> >> I think it would be better to simply use the generic NUMA_NO_NODE for this >> purpose, which is identical to how hugetlb, pxm mappings, etc, use it to >> specify no specific node affinity. > > Ok will do that in the next release. Patches 1-5 are queued for 2.6.36 so please send an incremental patch on top of 'slub/cleanups' branch of slab.git. -- 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