linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 10/16] mm/memblock: add a new function memblock_alloc_near

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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:04:24 +0800
From:   "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Frank Rowand" <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Xinwei Hu <huxinwei@...wei.com>,
        Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 10/16] mm/memblock: add a new function
 memblock_alloc_near_nid



On 2016/10/11 18:16, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:44:20AM +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>> On 2016/9/1 14:55, Zhen Lei wrote:
>>> If HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES is selected, and some memoryless numa nodes are
>>> actually exist. The percpu variable areas and numa control blocks of that
>>> memoryless numa nodes must be allocated from the nearest available node
>>> to improve performance.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/memblock.h |  1 +
>>>  mm/memblock.c            | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>>
>> Hi Will,
>>   It seems no one take care about this, how about I move below function into arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
>> again? So that, merge it and patch 11 into one.
> 
> I'd rather you reposted it after the merge window so we can see what to
> do with it then. The previous posting was really hard to figure out and
> mixed lots of different concepts into one series, so it's not completely
> surprising that it didn't all get picked up.
OK, thanks.

> 
> Will
> 
> .
>