From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware In-Reply-To: <43D953C4.5020205@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138233093.27293.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43D953C4.5020205@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Dobson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Not all requests for memory from a specific node are performance > enhancements, some are for correctness. With large machines, especially as alloc_pages_node and friends do not guarantee allocation on that specific node. That argument for "correctness" is bogus. > > You do not need this.... > I do not agree... There is no way that you would need this patch. -- 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