Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [BUG][PATCH] fix mempolcy's check on a system with memory-less-node take2 | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:03:46 +0100 |
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On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:00, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:49:41 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > This panic(hang) was found by a numa test-set on a system with 3 nodes, where > > > node(2) was memory-less-node. > > > > I still think it's the wrong fix -- just get rid of the memory less node. > > "Let's break it even more"?
I still don't get what you believe what would be broken then.
> > I expect you'll likely run into more problems with that setup anyways. > > What happens if he doesn't run into more problems?
Then he's lucky. I ran into problems at least when I still had the empty nodes some time ago on x86-64. Christoph said SN2 is doing the same.
iirc slab blew up at least, but that might be fixed by now. But it's a little risky because there is more code now that is node aware.
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