Hello, On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 05:02:31PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Also, shouldn't kmalloc_node() or any public allocator fall back > > automatically to a near node w/o GFP_THISNODE? Why is this failing at > > all? I get that cpu id -> node id mapping changing messes up the > > locality but allocations shouldn't fail, right? > > Without a node specification allocations are subject to various > constraints and memory policies. It is not simply going to the next node. > The memory load may require spreading out the allocations over multiple > nodes, the app may have specified which nodes are to be used etc etc. Yeah, sure, but even w/ node specified, it shouldn't fail unless THISNODE, right? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
