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

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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.

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   Manfred
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