From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D41AE6B007E for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:52:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:52:17 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/8] numa: Introduce numa_mem_id()- effective local memory node id In-Reply-To: <20100304170817.10606.29049.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20100304170654.10606.32225.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20100304170817.10606.29049.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-numa@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Mel Gorman , Andi Kleen , Nick Piggin , David Rientjes , akpm@linux-foundation.org, eric.whitney@hp.com List-ID: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > numa_mem_id() - returns node number of "local memory" node Can we call that numa_nearest_node or so? What happens if multiple nodes are at the same distance? Still feel unsecure about what happens if there are N closest nodes to M cpuless cpus. Will each of the M cpus use the first of the N closest nodes for allocation? -- 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