[RFC PATCH 1/3] slub: search partial list on numa_mem_id(), instead of numa_node_id()

Christoph Lameter cl at linux.com
Fri Feb 7 04:26:15 EST 2014


On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Currently, if allocation constraint to node is NUMA_NO_NODE, we search
> a partial slab on numa_node_id() node. This doesn't work properly on the
> system having memoryless node, since it can have no memory on that node and
> there must be no partial slab on that node.
>
> On that node, page allocation always fallback to numa_mem_id() first. So
> searching a partial slab on numa_node_id() in that case is proper solution
> for memoryless node case.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>


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