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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > GFP allocs may not do the right thing. If you want to do this then it 
> > may be best to set the memory policy to restrict allocations to the node 
> > on which the device resides.
> 
> They will do the right thing. Under memory pressue on the node 
> it is better to back off than to fail.

Node specific allocs fall back to other nodes and will not fail unless 
there is no memory available.