Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262376AbVERVPh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262378AbVERVPf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:35 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:62350 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262376AbVERVPR (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:15:17 -0400 Message-ID: <428BB05B.6090704@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:15:07 -0700 From: Matthew Dobson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Christoph Lameter , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , Jesse Barnes , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , shai@scalex86.org, steiner@sgi.com Subject: Re: NUMA aware slab allocator V3 References: <714210000.1116266915@flay> <200505161410.43382.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <740100000.1116278461@flay> <1116289613.26955.14.camel@localhost> <428A800D.8050902@us.ibm.com> <428B7B16.10204@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 28 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote: > > >>Thanks! I just looked at V2 & V3 of the patch and saw some open-coded >>loops. I may have missed a later version of the patch which has fixes. >>Feel free to CC me on future versions of the patch... > > > I will when I get everything together. The hold up at the moment is that > Martin has found a boot failure with the new slab allocator on ppc64 that > I am unable to explain. > > Strangely, the panic is in the page allocator. I have no means of > testing since I do not have a ppc64 system available. Could you help me > figure out what is going on? I can't promise anything, but if you send me the latest version of your patch (preferably with the loops fixed to eliminate the possibility of it accessing an unavailable/unusable node), I can build & boot it on a PPC64 box and see what happens. -Matt - 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/