Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2014 15:46:49 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] page_alloc: skip cpuset enforcement for lower zone allocations (v3) |
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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:45:04PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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Much cleaner, sent v4 with your suggestions.
> Why call __alloc_pages_nodemask at all if you want to skip the node > handling? Punt to alloc_pages()
- __alloc_pages_nodemask ignored GFP_DMA32 on older kernels, so the interface should remain functional. - There are others callers of alloc_pages(GFP_DMA) that can suffer from the same problem. - Mirrors mempolicy behaviour.
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