Sigh. I wish we could have avoided this. Neither name is satisfactory here. The meaning of -1 is unspecified. A node specification may be implicit here depending on the memory allocation policy. I was not sure how exactly to resolve the situation. But this way work with NUMA_NO_NODE. Certainly better. Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>