Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262080AbVELUWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262081AbVELUV7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:21:59 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:39138 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262080AbVELUV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:21:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:22:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: NUMA aware slab allocator V2 Message-Id: <20050512132230.118b0c25.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050512000444.641f44a9.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 35 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > > > This patch allows kmalloc_node to be as fast as kmalloc by introducing > > > node specific page lists for partial, free and full slabs. > > > > This patch causes the ppc64 G5 to lock up fairly early in boot. It's > > pretty much a default config: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/config-pmac > > > > No serial port, no debug environment, but no useful-looking error messages > > either. See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/dsc02516.jpg > > I got rc4-mm1 and booted it on an x86_64 machines with similar > configuration (no NUMA but SMP, numa slab uncommented) but multiple > configurations worked fine (apart from another error attempting to > initialize a nonexistand second cpu by the NMI handler that I described > in another email to you). I have no ppc64 available. > > Could we boot the box without quiet so that we can get better debug > messages? OK, I'll try that, but I doubt if it'll give much more info. > Did the box boot okay without the patch? Yup, I tested base 2.6.12-rc4 and 2.6.12-rc4+the-patch-you-sent. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/