(6/5/13 11:10 AM), Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Zone reclaim locked breaks zone_reclaim_mode=1. If more than one > thread allocates memory at the same time, it forces a premature > allocation into remote NUMA nodes even when there's plenty of clean > cache to reclaim in the local nodes. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> You should Christoph Lameter who make this lock. I've CCed. I couldn't find any problem in this removing. But I also didn't find a reason why this lock is needed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>