On 10/12/10 9:25 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:01:35AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> (Adding more people who've taken interest in slab performance in the
>> past to CC.)
>>
> I have not come even close to reviewing this yet but I made a start on
> putting it through a series of tests. It fails to build on ppc64
>
>    CC      mm/slub.o
> mm/slub.c:1477: warning: 'drain_alien_caches' declared inline after being called
> mm/slub.c:1477: warning: previous declaration of 'drain_alien_caches' was here

Can you try the attached patch to see if it fixes the problem?
> mm/slub.c: In function `alloc_shared_caches':
> mm/slub.c:1748: error: `cpu_info' undeclared (first use in this function)
> mm/slub.c:1748: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> mm/slub.c:1748: error: for each function it appears in.)
> mm/slub.c:1748: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name'
> mm/slub.c:1748: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name'
> mm/slub.c:1748: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name'
> mm/slub.c:1748: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name'
> mm/slub.c:1748: error: invalid type argument of `unary *'
> make[1]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1
> make: *** [mm] Error 2
>
> I didn't look closely yet but cpu_info is an arch-specific variable.
> Checking to see if there is a known fix yet before setting aside time to
> dig deeper.
Yeah, cpu_info.llc_shared_map is an x86ism. Christoph?

             Pekka