Re: [PATCH] [1/4] SLAB: Handle node-not-up case in fallback_alloc()v2

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:

> When fallback_alloc() runs the node of the CPU might not be initialized yet.
> Handle this case by allocating in another node.
> 
> v2: Try to allocate from all nodes (David Rientjes)
> 

You don't need to specifically address the cpuset restriction in 
fallback_alloc() since kmem_getpages() will return NULL whenever a zone is 
tried from an unallowed node, I just thought it was a faster optimization 
considering you (i) would operate over a nodemask and not the entire 
zonelist, (ii) it would avoid the zone_to_nid() for all zones since you 
already did a zonelist iteration in this function, and (iii) it wouldn't 
needlessly call kmem_getpages() for unallowed nodes.

> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That said, I don't want to see this fix go unmerged since you already 
declined to make that optimization once:

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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