Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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       cl@linux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:23:27 +0300
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Hi Mel,

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:18 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Please consider disabling it as an option in the rc3 stage or the like.
> With luck, I'll find a suitable machine in time and see what can be
> done. I just don't like the idea of x86 defaulting to one allocator and
> ppc defaulting to another.

SLQB is _not_ the default allocator in slqb/core and won't be one for
2.6.32 even if we do manage to sneak the allocator to linus.git.

			Pekka

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