On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:09:20PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > Wouldn't that have unintended consequences ? So far > > rb tree nodes are allocated even if a node not online; > > the above would change that. Are you saying it is > > unnecessary to initialize rb tree nodes if the node > > is not online ? > > It is not advisable to allocate since an offline node means that the > structure cannot be allocated on the node where it would be most > beneficial. Typically subsystems allocate the per node data structures > when the node is brought online. I would generally agree, but this code, which implements a userspace interface, is already grotesquely inefficient and heavyhanded. It's also superseded in the next release, so we can just keep this simple at this point. -- 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>