Re: NUMA aware slab allocator V3

Matthew Dobson
2005-05-18T21:15:37Z

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks! I just looked at V2 & V3 of the patch and saw some open-coded
>>loops. I may have missed a later version of the patch which has fixes.
>>Feel free to CC me on future versions of the patch...
>
>
> I will when I get everything together. The hold up at the moment is that
> Martin has found a boot failure with the new slab allocator on ppc64 that
> I am unable to explain.
>
> Strangely, the panic is in the page allocator. I have no means of
> testing since I do not have a ppc64 system available. Could you help me
> figure out what is going on?

I can't promise anything, but if you send me the latest version of your
patch (preferably with the loops fixed to eliminate the possibility of it
accessing an unavailable/unusable node), I can build & boot it on a PPC64
box and see what happens.

-Matt