From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com (mail-ie0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4AE6B0038 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id at1so7349844iec.30 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com (e39.co.us.ibm.com. [32.97.110.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ab4si10520912igd.52.2014.07.21.14.09.09 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:09:08 -0600 Received: from b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.198.28]) by d01dlp02.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8556E802D for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:08:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s6LL94Kh66977866 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:09:04 GMT Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s6LL94qQ031776 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:09:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:09:00 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Subject: Re: [RFC Patch V1 15/30] mm, igb: Use cpu_to_mem()/numa_mem_id() to support memoryless node Message-ID: <20140721210900.GI4156@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Alexander Duyck Cc: Jiang Liu , 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 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org