Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162130AbWKPAu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:50:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162133AbWKPAu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:50:59 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:36826 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162132AbWKPAu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:50:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:54:29 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki To: Christoph Lameter Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, steiner@sgi.com, krafft@de.ibm.com, 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 Message-Id: <20061116095429.0e6109a7.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20061115193049.3457b44c@localhost> <20061115193437.25cdc371@localhost> <20061115215845.GB20526@sgi.com> <455B9825.3030403@mbligh.org> Organization: Fujitsu X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 22 On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:52:43 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? > yes. just fallback. The zonelist[] donen't contain empty-zone. -Kame - 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/