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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:08:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509180842.GG24636@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205091252450.11225@router.home>

Hello, Christoph.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On some early 32 bit NUMA platforms only node 0 had ZONE_NORMAL memory.
> There is just no other ZONE_NORMAL memory available on other nodes on that
> hardware. But that is ancient history.

I see, but that shouldn't matter (at least anymore), the allocator can
fall back to other nodes just fine and there's no reason to
preemptively prefer node 0.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 11:37 [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5 Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 01/10] mm: bootmem: fix checking the bitmap when finally freeing bootmem Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:07   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 02/10] mm: bootmem: remove redundant offset check " Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:08   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 03/10] mm: bootmem: rename alloc_bootmem_core to alloc_bootmem_bdata Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 04/10] mm: bootmem: split out goal-to-node mapping from goal dropping Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 05/10] mm: bootmem: allocate in order node+goal, goal, node, anywhere Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 06/10] mm: bootmem: unify allocation policy of (non-)panicking node allocations Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 07/10] mm: nobootmem: panic on node-specific allocation failure Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 19:17   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 08/10] mm: nobootmem: unify allocation policy of (non-)panicking node allocations Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 19:23   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 09/10] mm: bootmem: pass pgdat instead of pgdat->bdata down the stack Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:19   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 18:21     ` David Miller
2012-05-10 21:44   ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-15 11:47     ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 20:41 ` [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5 Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 22:01   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-08 17:57     ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-09 17:35       ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-09 17:54         ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-09 18:08           ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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