Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed May 09 2012 - 14:08:44 EST


Hello, Christoph.

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On some early 32 bit NUMA platforms only node 0 had ZONE_NORMAL memory.
> There is just no other ZONE_NORMAL memory available on other nodes on that
> hardware. But that is ancient history.

I see, but that shouldn't matter (at least anymore), the allocator can
fall back to other nodes just fine and there's no reason to
preemptively prefer node 0.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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