From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] NUMA: Memoryless node support V4 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:35:08 +0200 References: <20070727194316.18614.36380.sendpatchset@localhost> <20070730211937.GD5668@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707310035.09046.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-mm@kvack.org, pj@sgi.com, kxr@sgi.com, Mel Gorman , akpm@linux-foundation.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , apw@shadowen.org List-ID: > Hmmm... yes trouble with NUMAQ is that the nodes only have HIGHMEM > but no NORMAL memory. The memory is not available to the slab allocator > (needs ZONE_NORMAL memory) and we cannot fall back anymore. We may need > something like N_SLAB that defines the allowed nodes for the slab > allocators. Sigh. Or just disable 32bit NUMA. The arch/i386 numa code is beyond ugly anyways and I don't think it ever worked particularly well. -Andi -- 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