On 10/19/20 2:20 AM, Xianting Tian wrote: > We don't need to check whether the node is memoryless numa node before > calling allocator interface. SLUB(and SLAB,SLOB) relies on the page > allocator to pick a node. Page allocator should deal with memoryless > nodes just fine. It has zonelists constructed for each possible nodes. > And it will automatically fall back into a node which is closest to the > requested node. As long as __GFP_THISNODE is not enforced of course. > > The code comments of kmem_cache_alloc_node() of SLAB also showed this: > * Fallback to other node is possible if __GFP_THISNODE is not set. > > blk-mq code doesn't set __GFP_THISNODE, so we can remove the calling > of local_memory_node(). Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
