Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Nov 09 2007 - 13:22:37 EST


On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> > Indeed, this probably needs to be validated... Sigh, more interleaving
> > of policies and everything else...
>
> Hrm, more importantly, isn't this an existing issue? Maybe should be
> resolved separately from the one zonelist patches.

GFP_THISNODE with alloc_pages() currently yields an allocation from the
first node of the MPOL_BIND zonelist. So its the lowest node of the set.

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