Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849

[Manfred Spraul]

Alok Kataria wrote:

> IMO the slab->nodeid  field just lets us know to which nodes list3 is 
> this slab attached, irrespective of the node from
> which node the memory was got.
Correct. Otherwise the code wouldn't work on ia32 NUMAQ systems: They 
have the whole ZONE_NORMAL in node 0.
When a slab is allocated, it's assigned to the node that did the alloc, 
regardless of the physical location of the memory.

--
   Manfred
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