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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	rientjes@google.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:47:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710091146360.32162@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009162526.GC26472@us.ibm.com>

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> > > And nodemask_thisnode() always gives us a nodemask with only the node
> > > the current process is running on set, I think?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, I interpreted THISNODE to mean "this node I am running on".
> > Callers seemed to expect this but the memoryless needs it to be "this
> > node I am running on unless I specify a node in which case I mean that
> > node.".
> 
> I think that is only true (THISNODE = local node) if the callpath is not
> via alloc_pages_node(). If the callpath is via alloc_pages_node(), then
> it depends on whether the nid parameter is -1 (in which case it is also
> local node) or anything (in which case it is the nid specified). Ah,
> reading further along, that's exactly what your changelog indicates too
> :)

Right. THISNODE means the node we are on or the node that we indicated we 
want to allocate from. 

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28 14:23 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v8 Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 14:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] Use zonelists instead of zones when direct reclaiming pages Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] Introduce node_zonelist() for accessing the zonelist for a GFP mask Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] Use two zonelist that are filtered by " Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 14:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx Mel Gorman
2007-10-17  3:22   ` David Rientjes
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
2007-09-28 14:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask Mel Gorman
2007-10-09  1:11   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-10-09  1:56     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-09  3:17       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-10-09 15:40     ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-09 16:25       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-10-09 18:47         ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-10-09 18:12       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-10-10 15:53       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-10 16:05         ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-10-10 16:09         ` Mel Gorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-09 14:32 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v9 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
2007-09-13 17:52 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v7 Mel Gorman
2007-09-13 17:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask 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 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask Mel Gorman
2007-09-11 21:30 [PATCH 0/6] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v5 (resend) Mel Gorman
2007-09-11 21:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask 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 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask Mel Gorman

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