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From: Daniel Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, olaf@aepfle.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:37:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206535048.7468.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E9EB77.9060909@cs.helsinki.fi>

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:21 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Will merge if I get confirmation that this indeed addresses the issue.
> 
> It fixes the problem reported by Daniel:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/25/249
> 
> But what I worry about is breaking setups that have memoryless nodes.
> 
> 			Pekka

The only way I could get the ES7000 to boot with 2.6.24.x was with
memoryless nodes (or numa=off).  The list corruption I saw was due to
CPU 0 not being on node 0.  
I do see problems with memoryless nodes on 2.6.25-rc.  I'll post a patch
for that shortly.

Dan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-26 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 21:59 [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init() Pekka J Enberg
2008-03-26  3:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-26  6:21   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-26 12:37     ` Daniel Yeisley [this message]
2008-03-26 16:28       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-26 17:16         ` Yeisley, Dan P.

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