From: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com, nacc@us.ibm.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:49:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204296564.5311.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228230140.321581a4.pj@sgi.com>
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:01 -0600, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Mel wrote:
> > A positive benefit of
> > this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local-node-ordered
> > zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist.
>
> Could you update the now obsolete documentation (perhaps just delete
> the no longer correct remark):
>
> Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt:
>
> MPOL_BIND: This mode specifies that memory must come from the
> set of nodes specified by the policy.
>
> The memory policy APIs do not specify an order in which the nodes
> will be searched. However, unlike "local allocation", the Bind
> policy does not consider the distance between the nodes. Rather,
> allocations will fallback to the nodes specified by the policy in
> order of numeric node id. Like everything in Linux, this is subject
> to change.
>
Yes, will do.
Thanks, Lee
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 14:32 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v9 Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use zonelists instead of zones when direct reclaiming pages Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 14:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] Introduce node_zonelist() for accessing the zonelist for a GFP mask Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 15:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-09 14:33 ` [PATCH 3/6] Use two zonelist that are filtered by " Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 14:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx Mel Gorman
2007-11-20 15:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-11-09 14:34 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2008-02-29 5:01 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-29 14:49 ` Lee Schermerhorn [this message]
2008-03-04 20:20 ` [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 - Mempolicy - update stale documentation and comments Lee Schermerhorn
2008-03-05 0:35 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-07 11:53 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 14:34 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-09 16:14 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-09 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-09 16:45 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-11-09 17:18 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-11-09 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-09 18:16 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-11-09 18:20 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-11-09 18:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-11 14:16 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-12 19:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-09 18:14 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-11-20 14:19 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-20 15:14 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-11-20 16:21 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-20 20:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-20 20:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-20 21:26 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-20 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-20 21:38 ` Christoph Lameter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-28 14:23 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v8 Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 14:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 15:37 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-28 18:28 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 18:38 ` Paul Jackson
2007-09-28 21:03 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-13 17:52 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v7 Mel Gorman
2007-09-13 17:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-09-12 21:04 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v6 Mel Gorman
2007-09-12 21:06 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-09-12 21:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 10:25 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-13 15:49 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-09-11 21:30 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v5 (resend) Mel Gorman
2007-09-11 21:31 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-09-11 15:19 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v5 Mel Gorman
2007-09-11 15:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:16 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v4 Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 20:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask Mel Gorman
2007-08-17 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 9:12 ` Mel Gorman
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