Re: [PATCH] Run PCI driver initialization on local node

Christoph Lameter
2005-07-06T20:19:48Z

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > GFP allocs may not do the right thing. If you want to do this then it
> > may be best to set the memory policy to restrict allocations to the node
> > on which the device resides.
>
> They will do the right thing. Under memory pressue on the node
> it is better to back off than to fail.

Node specific allocs fall back to other nodes and will not fail unless
there is no memory available.