Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031016AbWKOWxO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:53:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031017AbWKOWxO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:53:14 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:35302 "EHLO omx1.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031016AbWKOWxN (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:53:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:52:43 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Martin Bligh cc: Jack Steiner , Christian Krafft , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory In-Reply-To: <455B9825.3030403@mbligh.org> Message-ID: References: <20061115193049.3457b44c@localhost> <20061115193437.25cdc371@localhost> <20061115215845.GB20526@sgi.com> <455B9825.3030403@mbligh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 14 On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Martin Bligh wrote: > All we need is an appropriate zonelist for each node, pointing to > the memory it should be accessing. But there is no memory on the node. Does the zonelist contain the zones of the node without memory or not? We simply fall back each allocation to the next node as if the node was overflowing? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/