Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:42:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: SLUB doesn't work with kdump kernel on Cell |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Lucio Correia wrote:
> > SLAB boots because it falls back to node 0 for the control structures. So > > it creates useless control structures for node 1. These are then never > > used since any allocation attempt to node 1 falls back to node 0. > > Hi Christoph, > > Shouldn't SLUB falls back to other node also for the case it can't > allocate memory?
Yes SLUB will fall back but not during bootstrap. Bootstrap needs to carefully place structures on the right nodes. We fail during bootstrap because there is *no* memory available on it. - 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/
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