From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Patch](memory hotplug) Make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online to avoid panic(take 3) Message-Id: <20071018000004.cf4727e7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20071018122345.514F.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20071017204651.aefcece7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Yasunori Goto , Linux Kernel ML , linux-mm List-ID: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > > So that's slub. Does slab already have this functionality or are you > > not bothering to maintain slab in this area? > > Slab brings up a per node structure when the corresponding cpu is brought > up. That was sufficient as long as we did not have any memoryless nodes. > Now we may have to fix some things over there as well. Is there amy point? Our time would be better spent in making slab.c go away. How close are we to being able to do that anwyay? -- 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