On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Lucio Correia wrote: > > SLAB boots because it falls back to node 0 for the control structures. So > > it creates useless control structures for node 1. These are then never > > used since any allocation attempt to node 1 falls back to node 0. > > Hi Christoph, > > Shouldn't SLUB falls back to other node also for the case it can't > allocate memory?
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. - 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/
