Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:59:22 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com,
       KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:05:48AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> I mean why the core changes if this is an x86 issue?

The slab bugs are in no way related to x86, other than x86 supporting
memory hotadd & numa.

I only wrote "on x86" because I wasn't sure about the status on the other
platforms.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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