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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:00:09 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/25] Do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows
 the node is valid
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Mel Gorman wrote:
> Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
> "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast
> paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch,
> this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with
> VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>