On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:13:30PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>
>> >+ enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(flags);
>> >
>> >+ if (!node_present_pages(searchnode)) {
>> >+ zonelist = node_zonelist(searchnode, flags);
>> >+ for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx) {
>> >+ searchnode = zone_to_nid(zone);
>> >+ if (node_present_pages(searchnode))
>> >+ break;
>> >+ }
>> >+ }
>> > object = get_partial_node(s, get_node(s, searchnode), c, flags);
>> > if (object || node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
>> > return object;
>> >
>>
>> The patch fix the bug. However, the kernel crashed very quickly after running
>> stress tests for a short while:
>
>This is not a good way of fixing it. How about not asking for memory from
>nodes that are memoryless? Use numa_mem_id() which gives you the next node
>that has memory instead of numa_node_id() (gives you the current node
>regardless if it has memory or not).
Thanks for your pointing out, I will do it and retest it later.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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