On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:33:35AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > Next question - what does the memory allocator do if we run out of > memory on the given node? Should we punt to a different node if that > happens? Slower, but functional, seems preferable to not being able > to get memory.
When using alloc_pages_node the passed in node id is just a hint, the allocator will use all avaiable memory if nedeed.
