Re: [PATCH] reduce fragmentation due to kmem_cache_alloc_node

[Manfred Spraul]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> Manfred,
>
> This patch seems to work fine on my AMD machine.
> I tested your patch on 2.6.9-rc2-mm3. 
>
> It seemed to have fixed fragmentation problem I was
> observing, but I don't think it fixed the problem
> completely. I still see some fragmentation, with
> repeated tests of scsi-debug, but it could be due
> to the test. I will collect more numbers..
>
>  
Did you disable the !CONFIG_NUMA block from <linux/slab.h> or leave it 
enabled? If the CONFIG_NUMA test is in the header file, then my patch is 
identical to you proposal, except that I've changed the global 
declaration instead of just the call from alloc_percpu.

--
   Manfred
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