On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > This check wouild need to be something that checks for other contigencies > > in the page allocator as well. A simple solution would be to actually run > > a GFP_THIS_NODE alloc to see if you can grab a page from the proper node. > > If that fails then fallback. See how fallback_alloc() does it in slab. > > > > Hello, Christoph. > > This !node_present_pages() ensure that allocation on this node cannot succeed. > So we can directly use numa_mem_id() here. Yes of course we can use numa_mem_id(). But the check is only for not having any memory at all on a node. There are other reason for allocations to fail on a certain node. The node could have memory that cannot be reclaimed, all dirty, beyond certain thresholds, not in the current set of allowed nodes etc etc. -- 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>