Re: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: drop pointless static qualifier in build_zonelists()

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 15:07:27 EST


On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Kaitao Cheng wrote:

> There is no need to make the 'node_order' variable static
> since new value always be assigned before use it.

In the past MAX_NUMMNODES could become quite large like 512 or 1k. Large
array allocations on the stack are problematic.

Maybe that is no longer the case?