Re: [PATCH] mempolicy:add GFP_THISNODE when allocing new page

[Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Bob Liu wrote:
>
>> If move to the next node instead of early return, the relative position of the
>> page to the beginning of the node set will be break;
>
> Right.
>

Thanks!
Then would you please acking this patch?  So as mel.

>> (BTW:I am still not very clear about the preservation of the relative
>> position of the
>> page to the beginning of the node set. I think if the user call
>> migrate_pages() with
>> different count of src and dest nodes, the  relative position will also break.
>> eg. if call migrate_pags() from nodes is node(1,2,3) , dest nodes is
>> just node(3).
>> the current code logical will move pages in node 1, 2 to node 3. this case the
>> relative position is breaked).
>
> But in that case the user has specified that the set of nodes should be
> compacted during migration and therefore requested what ocurred.
>

-- 
Regards,
--Bob

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