From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 069016B007B for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:05:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:04:47 +1100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/4] SLAB: Set up the l3 lists for the memory of freshly added memory v2 Message-ID: <20100216140447.GN5723@laptop> References: <20100211953.850854588@firstfloor.org> <20100211205403.05A8EB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> <20100215060655.GH5723@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: Andi Kleen , Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com List-ID: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:47:29PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > @@ -1577,6 +1595,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void) > > > > */ > > > > register_cpu_notifier(&cpucache_notifier); > > > > > > > > + hotplug_memory_notifier(slab_memory_callback, SLAB_CALLBACK_PRI); > > > > + > > > > > > Only needed for CONFIG_NUMA, but there's no side-effects for UMA kernels > > > since status_change_nid will always be -1. > > > > Compiler doesn't know that, though. > > > > Right, setting up a memory hotplug callback for UMA kernels here isn't > necessary although slab_node_prepare() would have to be defined > unconditionally. I made this suggestion in my review of the patchset's > initial version but it was left unchanged, so I'd rather see it included > than otherwise stall out. This could always be enclosed in > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA later just like the callback in slub does. It's not such a big burden to annotate critical core code with such things. Otherwise someone else ends up eventually doing it. -- 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