From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-x22c.google.com (mail-qg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 026071A07EA for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 04:01:16 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail-qg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id e89so3536230qgf.3 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:01:10 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Nish Aravamudan Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Memoryless nodes and kworker Message-ID: <20140718180110.GD13012@htj.dyndns.org> References: <20140717230923.GA32660@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140718112039.GA8383@htj.dyndns.org> <20140718180008.GC13012@htj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20140718180008.GC13012@htj.dyndns.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Nishanth Aravamudan , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Memory Management List , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jiang Liu , Wanpeng Li List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:00:08PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > This isn't a huge issue but it shows that this is the wrong layer to > deal with this issue. Let the allocators express where they are. ^ allocator users > Choosing and falling back belong to the memory allocator. That's the > only place which has all the information that's necessary and those > details must be contained there. Please don't leak it to memory > allocator users. -- tejun