linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711091021490.14929@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:22:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
cc:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> > Indeed, this probably needs to be validated... Sigh, more interleaving
> > of policies and everything else...
> 
> Hrm, more importantly, isn't this an existing issue? Maybe should be
> resolved separately from the one zonelist patches.

GFP_THISNODE with alloc_pages() currently yields an allocation from the 
first node of the MPOL_BIND zonelist. So its the lowest node of the set.

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