linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86, numa: seperate alloc_numa_distance from numa_reset

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Message-ID: <20110221104803.GK31267@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:48:03 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86, numa: seperate alloc_numa_distance from
 numa_reset_distance.

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:59:38AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> +	if (!numa_distance)
> +		alloc_numa_distance();
> +
> +	if (!numa_distance_cnt)
> +		return;

Can you at least make alloc_numa_distance() return -ENOMEM on failure
instead of checking the numa_distance_cnt implicitly in the caller?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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