On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > Yes SLUB will fall back but not during bootstrap. Bootstrap needs to > > carefully place structures on the right nodes. We fail during bootstrap > > because there is *no* memory available on it. > > Sure, you want to have the structures on the right node if possible. > But seeing as there's no memory available, what is wrong with just > falling back?
Then you have a useless kmem_cache_node structure that will never be used. What I could do is an alloc without GFP_THISNODE, check the location of the allocated memory and then print out a big fat warning that the memory setup is screwed up? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/