Memoryless nodes: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes
authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:25:34 +0000 (01:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:42:58 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
commit4199cfa02b982f4c739e8a6a304d6a40e1935d25
treec917040b3ed5be157bee34a03408f31cf330dad0
parent2dca53a9dabe76f49209c9128313347510416c68
Memoryless nodes: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes

Processors on memoryless nodes must be able to fall back to remote nodes in
order to get a profiling buffer.  This may lead to excessive NUMA traffic but
I think we should allow this rather than failing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/profile.c