RE: Hugepages demand paging V1 [4/4]: Numa patch

From: Chen, Kenneth W
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 16:33:24 EST


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> dequeue_huge_page() seems to want a nodemask, not a vma, though I
>> suppose it's not particularly pressing.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:37:13PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> How about this variation following __alloc_page:

William Lee Irwin III wrote on Friday, October 22, 2004 12:41 PM
> Looks reasonable. The bit that struck me as quirky was the mpol_* on
> the NULL vma. This pretty much eliminates the hidden dispatch, so I'm
> happy.

The allocate from next best node is orthogonal to hugetlb demand paging.
This should be merged once all the bugs are fixed and later when demand
paging goes in, we can add the mpol_* stuff.

- Ken


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