On 6/15/18 1:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:33:35AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> Next question - what does the memory allocator do if we run out of >> memory on the given node? Should we punt to a different node if that >> happens? Slower, but functional, seems preferable to not being able >> to get memory. > > When using alloc_pages_node the passed in node id is just a hint, the > allocator will use all avaiable memory if nedeed. OK good, that's not a concern then. -- Jens Axboe
