On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > Despite a fairly specific case, I'd still like to get the problem fixed > for 2.6.23. I've posted up an alternative fix under the subject "Use one > zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v2". It's a more invasive > fix although arguably it's better overall than the hack because it's not > dealing with a specific special case and has a sensible path forward that > makes policies a saner ultimately. However, unlike the hack it affects all > callers of the page allocator so lets see what the reaction from reviewers > is before forgetting about the hack altogether. Well its more a precursor to things to come than a hack. If the tests go well for the single zonelist scheme then we may end up doing what the patch did for the mpol_bind zonelists for all allocations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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