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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:07:32 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
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Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
>  > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
> 
>  Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
>  being allocated.

Have you any performance measurements for this patch?

>  > 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.

I'll check.