From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiang Liu Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 03:20:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC Patch V1 15/30] mm, igb: Use cpu_to_mem()/numa_mem_id() to support memoryless node Message-Id: <53CF29F4.7040700@linux.intel.com> List-Id: References: <1405064267-11678-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> <1405064267-11678-16-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> <20140721174218.GD4156@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140721210900.GI4156@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140721210900.GI4156@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Nishanth Aravamudan , Alexander Duyck Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , Mike Galbraith , Peter Zijlstra , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Jeff Kirsher , Jesse Brandeburg , Bruce Allan , Carolyn Wyborny , Don Skidmore , Greg Rose , Alex Duyck , John Ronciak , Mitch Williams , Linux NICS , Tony Luck , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Netdev Hi Nishanth and Alexander, Thanks for review, will update the comments in next version. Regards! Gerry On 2014/7/22 5:09, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 21.07.2014 [12:53:33 -0700], Alexander Duyck wrote: >> I do agree the description should probably be changed. There shouldn't be >> any panics involved, only a performance impact as it will be reallocating >> always if it is on a node with no memory. > > Yep, thanks for the review. > >> My intention on this was to make certain that the memory used is from the >> closest node possible. As such I believe this change likely honours that. > > Absolutely, just wanted to make it explicit that it's not a functional > fix, just a performance fix (presuming this shows up at all on systems > that have memoryless NUMA nodes). > > I'd suggest an update to the comments, as well. > > Thanks, > Nish >