linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: remove the calling of local_memory

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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:08:49 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@....com>,
        raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mhocko@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: remove the calling of local_memory_node()

On 10/19/20 2:20 AM, Xianting Tian wrote:
> We don't need to check whether the node is memoryless numa node before
> calling allocator interface. SLUB(and SLAB,SLOB) relies on the page
> allocator to pick a node. Page allocator should deal with memoryless
> nodes just fine. It has zonelists constructed for each possible nodes.
> And it will automatically fall back into a node which is closest to the
> requested node. As long as __GFP_THISNODE is not enforced of course.
> 
> The code comments of kmem_cache_alloc_node() of SLAB also showed this:
>  * Fallback to other node is possible if __GFP_THISNODE is not set.
> 
> blk-mq code doesn't set __GFP_THISNODE, so we can remove the calling
> of local_memory_node().

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe