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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Looking at the code, it's triggerable in 2.6.24.3 at least. Why we don't have
> a report yet, probably because (1) the default allocator is SLUB which doesn't
> suffer from this and (2) you need a big honkin' NUMA box that causes fallback
> allocations to happen to trigger it.

Plus the issue only became a problem after the antifrag stuff went in. 
That came with SLUB as the default.