Re: [PATCH] page_alloc: skip cpuset enforcement for lower zone allocations (v3)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:45:04PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:

<snip>

Much cleaner, sent v4 with your suggestions.

> Why call __alloc_pages_nodemask at all if you want to skip the node
> handling? Punt to alloc_pages()

- __alloc_pages_nodemask ignored GFP_DMA32 on older kernels, so the
interface should remain functional.
- There are others callers of alloc_pages(GFP_DMA) that can suffer
from the same problem.
- Mirrors mempolicy behaviour.


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