linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp

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Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:49:24 -0500
From:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, nacc@...ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:01 -0600, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Mel wrote:
> > A positive benefit of
> > this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local-node-ordered
> > zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist.
> 
> Could you update the now obsolete documentation (perhaps just delete
> the no longer correct remark):
> 
> Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt:
> 
>         MPOL_BIND:  This mode specifies that memory must come from the
>         set of nodes specified by the policy.
> 
>             The memory policy APIs do not specify an order in which the nodes
>             will be searched.  However, unlike "local allocation", the Bind
>             policy does not consider the distance between the nodes.  Rather,
>             allocations will fallback to the nodes specified by the policy in
>             order of numeric node id.  Like everything in Linux, this is subject
>             to change.
> 

Yes, will do.  

Thanks, Lee

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