From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: NUMA policy issues with ZONE_MOVABLE In-Reply-To: <46A6D5E1.70407@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <46A6D5E1.70407@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Lee Schermerhorn , ak@suse.de, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Mel Gorman , akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Doesnt this mean that ZONE_MOVABLE is incompatible with CONFIG_NUMA? > > I guess it has similar problems as ZONE_HIGHMEM etc. I think the > zoned allocator and NUMA was there first, so it might be more > correct to say that mempolicies are incompatible with them :) Highmem is only used on i386 NUMA and works fine on NUMAQ. The current zone types are carefully fitted to existing NUMA systems. > But I thought you had plans to fix mempolicies to do zones better? No sure where you got that from. I repeatedly suggested that more zones be removed because of this one and other issues. -- 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