In funtion migrate_pages(), if the dest node have no enough free pages,it will fallback to other nodes. Add GFP_THISNODE to avoid this, the same as what funtion new_page_node() do in migrate.c. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 08f40a2..fc5ddf5 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -842,7 +842,8 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist, static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node, int **x) { - return alloc_pages_exact_node(node, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0); + return alloc_pages_exact_node(node, + GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | GFP_THISNODE, 0); } /* -- 1.5.6.3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>