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DateMon, 28 Jun 2004 08:28:03 +1000
FromAnton Blanchard <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails

> 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
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