From 8a76d06797c34db9997518db177531bae135cf46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:46:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] memory: be less strict about NUMA bindings

If we can't find memory on the local node (may happen with odd --smp
specification), it is better to use non-local memory than to abort.
---
 core/memory.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/memory.cc b/core/memory.cc
index db2339457..138e5251e 100644
--- a/core/memory.cc
+++ b/core/memory.cc
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ void configure(std::vector<resource::memory> m,
 #ifdef HAVE_NUMA
         unsigned long nodemask = 1UL << x.nodeid;
         auto r = ::mbind(cpu_mem.mem() + pos, x.bytes,
-                        MPOL_BIND,
+                        MPOL_PREFERRED,
                         &nodemask, std::numeric_limits<unsigned long>::digits,
                         MPOL_MF_MOVE);