Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > Argh.... GFP_THISNODE must use the nid passed to alloc_pages_node and 
> > *not* the local numa node id. Only if the node specified to alloc_pages 
> > nodes is -1 will this work.
> > 
> 
> alloc_pages_node() calls __alloc_pages_nodemask() though where in this
> function if I'm reading it right is called without a node id. Given no
> other details on the nid, the current one seemed a logical choice.

If the function only called when the first zone == numa_node_id then 
the use of numa_node_id here is okay.


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