Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored

Mel Gorman
2008-08-18T19:57:43Z

On (18/08/08 13:16), Adam Litke didst pronounce:
> <MUCH SNIPPAGE>
> mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 0 pfns 32768 -> 278528
> mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 1 zone 0 pfns 0 -> 524288

This might be the problem here. This machine has overlapping nodes which
is a fairly rare situation. I think it's possible the page linkages for
node 0 are getting overwritten with their node 1 equivalents. If this is
happening, it would lead to some oddness.