From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23:27 -0700 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH v4][RFC] hugetlb: add per-node nr_hugepages sysfs attribute Message-ID: <20070723122327.3610adf4@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1181765111.6148.98.camel@localhost> References: <20070612001542.GJ14458@us.ibm.com> <20070612034407.GB11773@holomorphy.com> <20070612050910.GU3798@us.ibm.com> <20070612051512.GC11773@holomorphy.com> <20070612174503.GB3798@us.ibm.com> <20070612191347.GE11781@holomorphy.com> <20070613000446.GL3798@us.ibm.com> <20070613152649.GN3798@us.ibm.com> <20070613152847.GO3798@us.ibm.com> <1181759027.6148.77.camel@localhost> <20070613191908.GR3798@us.ibm.com> <1181765111.6148.98.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan , William Lee Irwin III , anton@samba.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:05:10 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > I tried to "tighten up" alloc_pages_node() to check the location of > the first zone in the selected zonelist, as discussed in previous > exchange. When I do this, I hit a BUG() in slub.c in > early_kmem_cache_node_alloc(), as it apparently can't handle > new_slab() returning a NULL page, even tho' it calls it with > GFP_THISNODE. Slub should be able to handle memoryless nodes, > right? I'm looking for a work around to this now. The memoryless node patchset results in SLUB not attempting to allocate on memoryless nodes during bootstrap. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org