Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm, slab: restore NUMA policy support for large kmalloc

From: Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2025 - 12:52:25 EST


On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The slab allocator observes the task's NUMA policy in various places
> such as allocating slab pages. Large kmalloc() allocations used to do
> that too, until an unintended change by c4cab557521a ("mm/slab_common:
> cleanup kmalloc_large()") resulted in ignoring mempolicy and just
> preferring the local node. Restore the NUMA policy support.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxxx>