Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use one zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v2

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> It'll take me a while to absorb the patch, so I'll just ask:  Where does
> the zonelist for the argument come from?  If the the bind policy
> zonelist is removed, then does it come from a node?  There'll be only

Right.

> one per node with your other patches, right?  So you had to have a node
> id, to look up the zonelist?  Do you need the zonelist elsewhere,
> outside of alloc_pages()?  If not, why not just let alloc_pages look it
> up from a starting node [which I think can be determined from the
> policy]?  
 
Exactly. The starting node is passed to alloc_pages_nodemask. We could 
just pass -1 for numa_node_id().


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