From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, muchun.song@linux.dev,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
david@redhat.com, luizcap@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: use separate nodemask for bootmem allocations
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:41:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z_YkpQ37w9QIpBZh@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPTztWZCEvgoy-s553nTcd_qyRknaEcw3OU56H_kfePHzi3WdA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:48:33AM -0700, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> next_nid_to_alloc is used to remember the last node that was allocated
> from in __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(), so that the next call will
> continue at the node after the one that was successfully allocated
> from. The code there looks a bit confusing, since the macro
> for_each_node_mask_to_alloc is used there not really as a for loop,
> but simply as a way of saying "try this node and remember the next
> one".
Yes, this makes sense, thanks for explaining Frank :-)
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-09 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-02 20:56 [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: use separate nodemask for bootmem allocations Frank van der Linden
2025-04-08 13:54 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-04-08 15:48 ` Frank van der Linden
2025-04-09 7:41 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2025-04-09 7:47 ` Oscar Salvador
2025-04-16 1:07 ` Luiz Capitulino
2025-04-16 16:32 ` Frank van der Linden
2025-04-16 17:07 ` Luiz Capitulino
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