From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755001Ab1LVJaK (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:30:10 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.179.29]:38097 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753854Ab1LVJaG (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:30:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:30:04 -0600 From: Robin Holt To: Kay Sievers , Jack Steiner , Russ Anderson Cc: Robin Holt , Greg Kroah-Hartmann , LKML Subject: Re: question about link_mem_sections() Message-ID: <20111222093004.GH2547@sgi.com> References: <20111212124538.GC2547@sgi.com> <20111212134937.GE2547@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:18:47AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 14:49, Robin Holt wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:11:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > If you do decide to rework that logic, we can retest for the next couple > > months.  We do not normally have a 16TB test machine lying around (IIRC, > > the memory in something like that costs a couple million dollars), but we > > do fortunately have one right now until the latter part of next quarter. > > The rework of the sys_devices with the goal to finally removal of all > sysdev stuff is in Greg's tree now: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/driver-core-next > It will be available in linux-next. > > The hinted search moved from the 'kobject' to the 'bus' as: > dev = subsys_find_device_by_id(&memory_subsys, block_id, hintdev); > > Would be nice if you can eventually give it a try, on the big box, to > make sure we didn't break anything. If it is in linux-next, we may already have it. Russ or Jack, IIRC, you had been doing some testing with linux-next on the 16TB machine. Is that correct? If so, do you happen to have a timed boot log that we could look at? Thanks, Robin