From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266687AbUBGJHL (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:07:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266688AbUBGJHL (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:07:11 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:39830 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266687AbUBGJHJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:07:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:06:35 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes Message-ID: <20040207090634.GQ19011@krispykreme> References: <20040207042559.GP19011@krispykreme> <20040206210428.17ee63db.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040206210428.17ee63db.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is this a thing which all NUMA machines want to be doing? So far we have ppc64 and x86-64. I suspect the others will be OK with it. > Should this not search for the emptiest node? Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up being allocated. > Is non-__init code allowed to call __init code? I thought that caused > linkage errors on some setups. Pretty sure about that. I think, maybe. Maybe. Its news to me. Anton