Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:14:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
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       lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Rather it should be 2. I'll admit the physical setup of this machine is
> .... less than ideal but clearly it's something that can happen even if
> it's a bad idea.

Ok. Lets hope that Pekka's find does the trick. But this would mean that 
fallback gets memory from node 2 for the page allocator. Then fallback 
alloc is going to try to insert it into the l3 of node 2 which is not 
there yet. So another ooops. Sigh.

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