On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > Yes, sorry for my lack of clarity. I meant Joonsoo's latest patch for > the $SUBJECT issue. Hmmm... I am not sure that this is a general solution. The fallback to other nodes can not only occur because a node has no memory as his patch assumes. If the target node allocation fails (for whatever reason) then I would recommend for simplicities sake to change the target node to NUMA_NO_NODE and just take whatever is in the current cpu slab. A more complex solution would be to look through partial lists in increasing distance to find a partially used slab that is reasonable close to the current node. Slab has logic like that in fallback_alloc(). Slubs get_any_partial() function does something close to what you want. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>