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

Joonsoo Kim
2014-05-19T02:54:16Z

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 04:37:35PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> 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?

Hello,

Okay. I will do it.

Thanks.