Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes haveno memory

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 19:51:18 EST


On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:52:43 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> 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?
>
yes. just fallback.
The zonelist[] donen't contain empty-zone.

-Kame

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