Re: [PATCH v8 10/16] mm/memblock: add a new function memblock_alloc_near_nid

From: Leizhen (ThunderTown)
Date: Tue Oct 11 2016 - 07:11:40 EST




On 2016/10/11 18:16, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:44:20AM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>> On 2016/9/1 14:55, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>> If HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES is selected, and some memoryless numa nodes are
>>> actually exist. The percpu variable areas and numa control blocks of that
>>> memoryless numa nodes must be allocated from the nearest available node
>>> to improve performance.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
>>> mm/memblock.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>>
>> Hi Will,
>> It seems no one take care about this, how about I move below function into arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
>> again? So that, merge it and patch 11 into one.
>
> I'd rather you reposted it after the merge window so we can see what to
> do with it then. The previous posting was really hard to figure out and
> mixed lots of different concepts into one series, so it's not completely
> surprising that it didn't all get picked up.
OK, thanks.

>
> Will
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