linux-kernel - Re: Pagecache: find_or_create_page does not call a proper page allocator function

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704241254420.12907@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:55:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pj@....com
Subject: Re: Pagecache: find_or_create_page does not call a proper page
 allocator function

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Or Christoph may prevail in persuading there's no such problem.

This is pointless. NUMA allocations can only be controlled for the highest 
zone. If we switch to a lower zone then we allocate on a different zone 
than the user requested.

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