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

Andi Kleen
2010-02-26T15:57:58Z

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:04:56AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Memory hotplug with node add never quite worked on x86 before,
> > for various reasons not related to slab.
>
> Ok but why did things break in such a big way?

1) numa memory hotadd never worked
2) the rest just bitrotted because nobody tested it.

-Andi
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