Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

[Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>]

Mel Gorman wrote:
> I have access to a ppc machine but not necessarily one with a memoryless nodes
> that can reproduce this problem.
>
> Assuming Sachin is the reporter and we are in the same company, maybe I
> have access to the machine. Sachin, can you mail me privately what this
> machine is called and lets see can I get some time on that machine? By
> any chance, was this bisected or did it just show up when SLQB became
> the default?
>   
Mel,

Have sent you the access details for the machine. This bug showed
up when SLQB was enabled as default in linux-next

Thanks
-Sachin

> Total aside, does anybody know handily if fake NUMA support allows the
> creation of memoryless nodes help reproducing problems like this? If I can't
> get a real machine, that'll be the approach I'll be trying.
>
>   
>> Btw, the code is in slqb/core branch of slab.git in case someone wants
>> to take a stab at fixing the bug.
>>
>>     
>
>   


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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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