Re: [RFC Patch V1 15/30] mm, igb: Use cpu_to_mem()/numa_mem_id() to support memoryless node

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Tue Jul 22 2014 - 23:21:06 EST


Hi Nishanth and Alexander,
Thanks for review, will update the comments
in next version.
Regards!
Gerry

On 2014/7/22 5:09, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 21.07.2014 [12:53:33 -0700], Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> I do agree the description should probably be changed. There shouldn't be
>> any panics involved, only a performance impact as it will be reallocating
>> always if it is on a node with no memory.
>
> Yep, thanks for the review.
>
>> My intention on this was to make certain that the memory used is from the
>> closest node possible. As such I believe this change likely honours that.
>
> Absolutely, just wanted to make it explicit that it's not a functional
> fix, just a performance fix (presuming this shows up at all on systems
> that have memoryless NUMA nodes).
>
> I'd suggest an update to the comments, as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Nish
>
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