Memoryless Nodes: No need for kswapd A node without memory does not need a kswapd. So use the memory map instead of the online map to start kswapd. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-13 23:15:05.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-13 23:16:30.000000000 -0700 @@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@ static int __init kswapd_init(void) int nid; swap_setup(); - for_each_online_node(nid) + for_each_memory_node(nid) kswapd_run(nid); hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0); return 0;