From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:05:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gfp.h: GFP_THISNODE can go to other nodes if some are unpopulated In-Reply-To: <20070607220149.GC15776@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20070607150425.GA15776@us.ibm.com> <20070607220149.GC15776@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, anton@samba.org, apw@shadowen.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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