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SubjectRe: [BUG][PATCH] fix mempolcy's check on a system with memory-less-node take2
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:03:46 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> 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.

A node with no memory is physical reality. The kernel should do its best
handle and report it accurately. Pretending that the CPUs on that node are
local to a different node's memory (as I understand your proposal) goes
against that.

> > > 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.
>

Well... I'd suggest that we try to struggle on, get it working. Is there
a downside to doing that?
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