From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:28:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040627222803.GH23589@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406270827.28310.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
> But allocating from other nodes has performance implications, which
> might be quite big, depending on the specific architecture. So you
> should at least print an KERN_INFO or even KERN_WARNING message,
> if this happens.
...
> So now the user knows what is going on and that this node might need
> more memory ;-)
Unfortunately nodes without memory is relatively common on ppc64, and I
believe x86-64. From a ppc64 perspective Im fine with best effort, perhaps
someone from the heavily NUMA camp (ia64?) could comment.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-27 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-27 5:27 [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails Anton Blanchard
2004-06-27 6:27 ` Ingo Oeser
2004-06-27 22:28 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-06-28 6:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 12:04 ` Robert Picco
2004-06-28 18:26 ` Martin Hicks
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