Re: [patch 1/3] slob: rework freelist handling

Nick Piggin
2007-05-23T05:03:33Z

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:01:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > No. With CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG it is more than twice as big again.
> >
> >
> > > > I'll see if I can get some basic dynamic memory numbers soon. The problem
> > > > is that slub oopses on boot on the powerpc platform I'm testing on...
> > >
> > > Please send me a full bug report.
> >
> > It was on ppc and there seemed to still be some activity going on
> > there at the time, so if it still breaks when I retest then I will
> > send you a report.
>
> There is a known issue for !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and 2.6.21-rc1-mm1 and
> 2.6.22-rc2. Just leave it on.

Is there a patch for it? Turning on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG doesn't seem like
a good idea when trying to make a comparison.