Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 14:07:05 EST


Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
>
> Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
> being allocated.

Have you any performance measurements for this patch?

> > Is non-__init code allowed to call __init code? I thought that caused
> > linkage errors on some setups. Pretty sure about that. I think, maybe.
>
> Maybe. Its news to me.

I'll check.

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