From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:22:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: NUMA aware slab allocator V2 Message-Id: <20050512132230.118b0c25.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050512000444.641f44a9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > > > This patch allows kmalloc_node to be as fast as kmalloc by introducing > > > node specific page lists for partial, free and full slabs. > > > > This patch causes the ppc64 G5 to lock up fairly early in boot. It's > > pretty much a default config: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/config-pmac > > > > No serial port, no debug environment, but no useful-looking error messages > > either. See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/dsc02516.jpg > > I got rc4-mm1 and booted it on an x86_64 machines with similar > configuration (no NUMA but SMP, numa slab uncommented) but multiple > configurations worked fine (apart from another error attempting to > initialize a nonexistand second cpu by the NMI handler that I described > in another email to you). I have no ppc64 available. > > Could we boot the box without quiet so that we can get better debug > messages? OK, I'll try that, but I doubt if it'll give much more info. > Did the box boot okay without the patch? Yup, I tested base 2.6.12-rc4 and 2.6.12-rc4+the-patch-you-sent. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org