Re: [patch] slab: Do not use mempolicy for kmalloc_node

From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 15:51:16 EST


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:36:54AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
>
> ...
> This is not complete. Please see the discussion on GFP_THISNODE and the
> related patch to fix this issue
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=115505682122540&w=2

Hmm, I see, but with the above patch, if we ignore mempolicy for
__GFP_THISNODE slab caches at alternate_node_alloc (which is pretty much
all the slab caches) then we would be ignoring memplocies altogether no?

Thanks,
Kiran
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