Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:38:37 +0200
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       cl@linux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:53:41PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> Mel Gorman wrote:
> >I have access to a ppc machine but not necessarily one with a memoryless 
> >nodes
> >that can reproduce this problem.
> >
> >Assuming Sachin is the reporter and we are in the same company, maybe I
> >have access to the machine. Sachin, can you mail me privately what this
> >machine is called and lets see can I get some time on that machine? By
> >any chance, was this bisected or did it just show up when SLQB became
> >the default?
> >  
> Mel,
> 
> Have sent you the access details for the machine. This bug showed
> up when SLQB was enabled as default in linux-next

Maybe it will be better to hold off merging until this is
debugged then? If it is merged as a non-default option, then
I can't see it being a huge issue to merge it a bit after the
window? It doesn't touch anything else...


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