Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761943AbXJRH1I (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:27:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759114AbXJRH0s (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:26:48 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54412 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758315AbXJRH0r (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:26:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Yasunori Goto , Linux Kernel ML , linux-mm Subject: Re: [Patch](memory hotplug) Make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online to avoid panic(take 3) Message-Id: <20071018000004.cf4727e7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20071018122345.514F.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20071017204651.aefcece7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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: 796 Lines: 16 On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > > So that's slub. Does slab already have this functionality or are you > > not bothering to maintain slab in this area? > > Slab brings up a per node structure when the corresponding cpu is brought > up. That was sufficient as long as we did not have any memoryless nodes. > Now we may have to fix some things over there as well. Is there amy point? Our time would be better spent in making slab.c go away. How close are we to being able to do that anwyay? - 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/