Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [0/4] SLAB: Fix a couple of slab memory hotadd issues | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:22:21 +0100 |
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Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> This fixes various problems in slab found during memory hotadd testing. > > It changes the bootstrap semantics. The requirement was so far that slab > initialization must be complete before slab operations can be used.
The problem is that slab itself uses slab it initialize itself.
> This patchset allows such use before bootstrap on a node is complete and > also allows the running of cache reaper before bootstrap is done. > > I have a bad feeling that this could be the result of Pekka's changes to > the bootstrap.
Not sure I fully follow what you're saying.
Are you saying this is a regression fix after all?
-Andi
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