From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:37:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v2 In-Reply-To: <1186612807.5055.106.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20070808161504.32320.79576.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <1186597819.5055.37.camel@localhost> <20070808214420.GD2441@skynet.ie> <1186612807.5055.106.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Mel Gorman , pj@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > It'll take me a while to absorb the patch, so I'll just ask: Where does > the zonelist for the argument come from? If the the bind policy > zonelist is removed, then does it come from a node? There'll be only Right. > one per node with your other patches, right? So you had to have a node > id, to look up the zonelist? Do you need the zonelist elsewhere, > outside of alloc_pages()? If not, why not just let alloc_pages look it > up from a starting node [which I think can be determined from the > policy]? Exactly. The starting node is passed to alloc_pages_nodemask. We could just pass -1 for numa_node_id(). -- 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