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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:

> plain text document attachment (critical_mempools)
> Add NUMA-awareness to the mempool code.  This involves several changes:

I am not quite sure why you would need numa awareness in an emergency 
memory pool. Presumably the effectiveness of the accesses do not matter. 
You only want to be sure that there is some memory available right?

You do not need this....