From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4ILFD6R028640 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:13 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j4ILFCkv114664 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:12 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4ILFCuH025637 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <428BB05B.6090704@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:15:07 -0700 From: Matthew Dobson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: NUMA aware slab allocator V3 References: <714210000.1116266915@flay> <200505161410.43382.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <740100000.1116278461@flay> <1116289613.26955.14.camel@localhost> <428A800D.8050902@us.ibm.com> <428B7B16.10204@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Christoph Lameter , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , Jesse Barnes , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , shai@scalex86.org, steiner@sgi.com List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote: > > >>Thanks! I just looked at V2 & V3 of the patch and saw some open-coded >>loops. I may have missed a later version of the patch which has fixes. >>Feel free to CC me on future versions of the patch... > > > I will when I get everything together. The hold up at the moment is that > Martin has found a boot failure with the new slab allocator on ppc64 that > I am unable to explain. > > Strangely, the panic is in the page allocator. I have no means of > testing since I do not have a ppc64 system available. Could you help me > figure out what is going on? I can't promise anything, but if you send me the latest version of your patch (preferably with the loops fixed to eliminate the possibility of it accessing an unavailable/unusable node), I can build & boot it on a PPC64 box and see what happens. -Matt -- 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