Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V3

Mel Gorman
2009-09-22T13:21:22Z

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:54:11PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Changelog since V2
> o Turned out that allocating per-cpu areas for node ids on ppc64 just
> wasn't stable. This series statically declares the per-node data. This
> wastes memory but it appears to work.
>
> Currently SLQB is not allowed to be configured on PPC and S390 machines as
> CPUs can belong to memoryless nodes. SLQB does not deal with this very well
> and crashes reliably.
>

GACK. Sorry about the 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 problem. There are only three
patches in this set. I dropped the last patch which was related to the
SLQB corruption problem because it didn't appear to help and didn't fix
up the number. Sorry.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab