From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, anton@samba.org, apw@shadowen.org,
mel@csn.ul.ie, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gfp.h: GFP_THISNODE can go to other nodes if some are unpopulated
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:05:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706071505330.28899@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070607220149.GC15776@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> /*
> - * NOTE: if the requested node is unpopulated (no memory), a THISNODE
> - * request can go to other nodes due to the fallback list
> + * NOTE: GFP_THISNODE allocates from the first available pgdat (== node
> + * structure) from the zonelist of the requested node. The first pgdat
> + * may be the pgdat of another node if the requested node has no memory
> + * on its own.
> */
> #define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
> #else
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 15:04 [PATCH] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-07 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-07 22:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-07 22:05 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-06-07 22:16 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-11 12:49 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-11 16:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 17:12 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-11 18:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 18:46 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-11 18:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 19:36 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-11 19:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 20:18 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-11 18:23 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-11 18:40 ` Christoph Lameter
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