Re: [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:13 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Interesting. This may attempt to allocate from offlined nodes, assuming
> one adds on sufficient hotplug bits atop mainline and/or -mm. The
> following almost does it hotplug-safe except that it needs to enter the
> allocator with preemption disabled and drop the preempt_count
> internally to it.

Can we make alloc_pages_node take offline nodes instead?  Maybe it could just 
allocate from the next nearest node or something?

> I suspect we are better off punting this in the direction of hotplug
> people than trying to address it ourselves. I think we should go with
> this now, as the node hotplug bits are yet to hit the tree.

Yeah, agreed.

Jesse
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