Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:55:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390 |
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> The SLQB allocator is known to be broken on certain PowerPC and S390 > configurations. Disable the allocator in Kconfig for those architectures > until the issues are resolved. > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > Cc: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> > --- > init/Kconfig | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > index c0d8a47..aaeddeb 100644 > --- a/init/Kconfig > +++ b/init/Kconfig > @@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ config SLUB > > config SLQB > bool "SLQB (Queued allocator)" > + depends on !PPC && !S390 > help > SLQB is a proposed new slab allocator. >
I think this should be (!PPC && !S390) || EXPERIMENTAL so that it can still be enabled for debugging and development.
Is this in preparation for slqb inclusion as a non-default slab allocator in 2.6.32? 2.6.33?
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