Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] slub: search partial list on numa_mem_id(), instead of numa_node_id()

Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-05-16T23:37:52Z

On 06.02.2014 [17:07:04 +0900], Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Currently, if allocation constraint to node is NUMA_NO_NODE, we search
> a partial slab on numa_node_id() node. This doesn't work properly on the
> system having memoryless node, since it can have no memory on that node and
> there must be no partial slab on that node.
>
> On that node, page allocation always fallback to numa_mem_id() first. So
> searching a partial slab on numa_node_id() in that case is proper solution
> for memoryless node case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Joonsoo, would you send this one on to Andrew?

Thanks,
Nish