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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/8] Add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag

> You could make the same argument for anything using kmalloc_node() since
> preferred_zone may very well not be on the allocating cpu's node.

You're right. It is not always, that is why I defined a new flag. In the
cases where the flag
is passed it is.



> So you
> either define NUMA_LOCAL to account for when a cpu allocates memory local
> to itself (as it's name implies) or you define it to account for when
> memory comes from the preferred_zone's node as determined by the zonelist.

That's already numa_hit as you say.

I just don't think "local to some random kernel daemon that means
nothing to the user"
is a useful definition for local_hit.

When I defined the counter I intended it to be local to the user
process. It always was like
that too, just THP changed the rules.

-Andi




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