linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5

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Message-ID: <20120509180842.GG24636@google.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2012 11:08:42 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5

Hello, Christoph.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On some early 32 bit NUMA platforms only node 0 had ZONE_NORMAL memory.
> There is just no other ZONE_NORMAL memory available on other nodes on that
> hardware. But that is ancient history.

I see, but that shouldn't matter (at least anymore), the allocator can
fall back to other nodes just fine and there's no reason to
preemptively prefer node 0.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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