Re: Profiling: Require buffer allocation on the correct node

Andi Kleen
2006-08-10T03:21:19Z

On Thursday 10 August 2006 04:18, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Profiling really suffers with off node buffers. Fail if no memory is available
> on the nodes. The profiling code can deal with these failures should
> they occur.

At least for Opterons and other small NUMAs I have my doubts this is a good strategy.
However it probably shouldn't happen very often, but if it happened it would be
the wrong thing.

In general shouldn't there be a printk at least? Doing such things silently is a bit
nasty.

-Andi