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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

  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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