Re: [RFC] Reverting NUMA-affine page table allocation

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 03:30:27 EST


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:37:30PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I'd like to revert NUMA-affine page table allocation for now and come
> back to it in the next devel cycle. Thanks to the memblock top-down
> change, the RED-PEN condition (page table ending up in DMA memory)
> doesn't exist with or without NUMA affine allocation and the only
> downside of reverting would be page tables allocated in foreign nodes
> on machines which don't support 1GiB mapping.
>
> What do you think?

If there's no objection, I'll revert it later today and ask Ingo to
pull it.

Thanks.

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tejun
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