linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear node_load[] in function build

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Date:   Sat, 15 Jan 2022 23:45:18 +0000
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear node_load[] in function
 build_zonelists

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:00:02PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>static variable node_load[] is a helper variable during build zonelist.
>On each turn for building zonelist, node_load[] is cleared. So this is
>proper to do this in function build_zonelist.
>

Hm... sounds I missed some important part of this operation.

Please forget this one :-(

>Another side effect is,  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA could be removed since
>node_load[] is only defined when CONFIG_NUMA is set.
>

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