Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:01:35 -0800 | From | Martin Bligh <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Martin Bligh wrote: > >> All we need is an appropriate zonelist for each node, pointing to >> the memory it should be accessing. > > But there is no memory on the node. Does the zonelist contain the zones of > the node without memory or not? We simply fall back each allocation to the > next node as if the node was overflowing?
Sure. there's no point in putting an empty zone in the zonelist. We should just skip anything where present_pages is zero.
M.
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