From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D9874E7.70805@colorfullife.com> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:59:35 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATH] slab cleanup References: <3D96F559.2070502@colorfullife.com> <732392454.1033343702@[10.10.2.3]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@digeo.com, tomlins@cam.org, "Kamble, Nitin A" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Martin J. Bligh wrote: >>Could someone test that it works on real SMP? > > > Tested on 16-way NUMA-Q (shows up races quicker than anything ;-)). > Boots, compiles the kernel 5 times OK. That's good enough for me. > No performance regression, in fact was marginally faster (within > experimental error though). > Thanks for the test. NUMA is on my TODO list, after figuring out where/how to drain cpu caches and the free list. I've found one stupid bug with debugging enabled: the new debug code tries to poison NULL pointers, with limited success :-( And one limitation might be important for arch specific code: kmem_cache_create() during mem_init() is not possible anymore. -- Manfred -- 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/