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

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:33:25 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	mel@....ul.ie, Lee.Schermerhorn@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, nacc@...ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:18:10 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Went back and revisited this. Allocating them at boot-time is below but
> > essentially it is a silly and it makes sense to just have two zonelists
> > where one of them is for __GFP_THISNODE. Implementation wise, this involves
> > dropping the last patch in the set and the overall result is still a reduction
> > in the number of zonelists.
> 
> Allright with me. Andrew could we get this patchset merged?

uhm, maybe.  It's getting toward the time when we should try to get -mm
vaguely compiling and booting on some machines, which means stopping
merging new stuff.  I left that too late in the 2.6.23 cycle.

otoh it'd be nice to get mainline fixed up a bit too :(
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