Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap

David Rientjes
2010-02-27T00:01:20Z

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> > 1) numa memory hotadd never worked
>
> Well Kamesan indicated that this worked if a cpu became online.
>

That may be true, but it doesn't address hotpluggable
ACPI_SRAT_MEM_HOT_PLUGGABLE entries for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE where
no cpus are being onlined or writing to /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
for CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE.

> > 2) the rest just bitrotted because nobody tested it.
>
> Yep. David: Can you revise the relevant portions of the patchset and
> repost it?
>

Ok.