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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:18:58 +1100
From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/perf/imc: use NUMA_NO_NODE for
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:13:42 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> alloc_pages_node() when passed NUMA_NO_NODE for the
> node_id, could get memory from closest node. Cleanup
> core imc and thread imc memory init functions to use
> NUMA_NO_NODE.


The changelog is not clear, alloc_pages_node() takes a
preferred node id and creates a node zonelist from it.
How is NUMA_NO_NODE better? 

Balbir Singh.