Re: alloc_pages_node(... GFP_KERNEL | GFP_THISNODE ...) fails

["Max Laier" <max@laiers.net>]

Am Fr, 29.05.2009, 18:36, schrieb Andi Kleen:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:18:44PM +0200, Max Laier wrote:
>> Am Fr, 29.05.2009, 17:01, schrieb Andi Kleen:
>> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:54:06AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Max Laier wrote:
>> I guess the question is, what is special about my allocation in KVM as
>
> Define "in KVM"?
>
> Inside the guest?

No, inside the host /for/ the guest.  See the mail that started this
thread.  What I'm trying to do is to pin page allocations for a VM to a
(set of) node(s).

>> opposed to the allocation in the test module (that works as expected).
>
> I thought you complained that the test module didn't increase the numastat
> counters as expected?

No, the test module is fine.  The exact same call in the KVM allocation
routine, however, does not work.  Again, please see my initial post.

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