From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BAD6B0047 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:22:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/4] SLAB: Fix a couple of slab memory hotadd issues From: Andi Kleen References: <201002031039.710275915@firstfloor.org> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:22:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Christoph Lameter's message of "Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:19:48 -0600 (CST)") Message-ID: <87636bv3eq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haicheng.li@intel.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter writes: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> This fixes various problems in slab found during memory hotadd testing. > > It changes the bootstrap semantics. The requirement was so far that slab > initialization must be complete before slab operations can be used. The problem is that slab itself uses slab it initialize itself. > This patchset allows such use before bootstrap on a node is complete and > also allows the running of cache reaper before bootstrap is done. > > I have a bad feeling that this could be the result of Pekka's changes to > the bootstrap. Not sure I fully follow what you're saying. Are you saying this is a regression fix after all? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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: email@kvack.org