Re: [patch 2/3] Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior for memoryless nodes

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

On 13.06.2007 [16:15:24 -0700], Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> 
> > I would like to roll up the patches and small fixes into a set of 4 or 5
> > patches that Andrew can pick up, so once this is all stable, I'll post a
> > fresh series. Sound good, Andrew?
> 
> NACK. This patchset is not ready for any inclusion and nothing like
> that should go into 2.6.22. We first need to assess the breakage that
> results if GFP_THISNODE now returns NULL for memoryless nodes. So far
> GFP_THISNODE returns memory on the nearest node and that seems to make
> lots of things keep working.

Who the heck said anything about mainline?

See my other reply for discussing GFP_THISNODE.

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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