Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:

> Not all requests for memory from a specific node are performance
> enhancements, some are for correctness.  With large machines, especially as

alloc_pages_node and friends do not guarantee allocation on that specific 
node. That argument for "correctness" is bogus.

> > You do not need this.... 
> I do not agree...

There is no way that you would need this patch.


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