Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755618AbZIQLX0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755067AbZIQLXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:23:25 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:45174 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752268AbZIQLXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:23:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390 From: Pekka Enberg To: Mel Gorman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, npiggin@suse.de, sachinp@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20090917111828.GB7205@csn.ul.ie> References: <1253083059.5478.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917100841.GF13002@csn.ul.ie> <1253183365.4975.20.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917105707.GA7205@csn.ul.ie> <1253186019.4975.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090917111828.GB7205@csn.ul.ie> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:23:27 +0300 Message-Id: <1253186607.4975.36.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 18 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 -- 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/