On Thu 06-12-18 11:34:30, Pingfan Liu wrote: [...] > > I suspect we are looking at two issues here. The first one, and a more > > important one is that there is a NUMA affinity configured for the device > > to a non-existing node. The second one is that nr_cpus affects > > initialization of possible nodes. > > The dev->numa_node info is extracted from acpi table, not depends on > the instance of numa-node, which may be limited by nr_cpus. Hence the > node is existing, just not instanced. Hmm, binding to memory less node is quite dubious. But OK. I am not sure how much sanitization can we do. We need to fallback anyway so we should better make sure that all possible nodes are initialized regardless of nr_cpus. I will look into that. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs