Re: move_pages fails on 2 node system

David Rientjes <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-numa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i have come across a bug(likely) when ran move_pages test for 2 node system.
> below patch fixes the issue.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/test/move_pages.c b/test/move_pages.c
> index 70c6556..bab152d 100755
> --- a/test/move_pages.c
> +++ b/test/move_pages.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>         pagesize = getpagesize();
> 
>         nr_nodes = numa_max_node();
> +       nr_nodes = nr_nodes + 1;
> 
>         if (nr_nodes < 2) {
>                 printf("A minimum of 2 nodes is required for this test.\n");

If this patch fixes it, then why is numa_max_node() returning 1 on a 2 
node system?