linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Quicklist is slighly problematic.

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:07:43 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	tokunaga.keiich@...fujitsu.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Quicklist is slighly problematic.

Robin Holt wrote:
>
> Index: ia64-cleanups/include/linux/quicklist.h
> ===================================================================
> --- ia64-cleanups.orig/include/linux/quicklist.h	2008-08-20 21:35:10.000000000 -0500
> +++ ia64-cleanups/include/linux/quicklist.h	2008-08-20 21:38:00.891943270 -0500
> @@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ static inline void __quicklist_free(int 
>  
>  static inline void quicklist_free(int nr, void (*dtor)(void *), void *pp)
>  {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +	unsigned long nid = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(pp));
> +
> +	if (unlikely(nid != numa_node_id())) {
> +		free_page((unsigned long)pp);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +#endif
> +
>  	__quicklist_free(nr, dtor, pp, virt_to_page(pp));
>  }
>  

We removed this code because it frees a page before the TLB flush has been
performed. This code segment was the reason that quicklists were not accepted
for x86.
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