Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:28:03 +1000 | | From | Anton Blanchard <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails |
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> 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.
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> 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.
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