Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:01:08 +0300 |
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Hi David,
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. > >
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 23:55 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > I think this should be (!PPC && !S390) || EXPERIMENTAL so that it can > still be enabled for debugging and development.
Everybody enables EXPERIMENTAL so that seems pointless. Developers can hack Kconfig locally, no?
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 23:55 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > Is this in preparation for slqb inclusion as a non-default slab > allocator in 2.6.32? 2.6.33?
Non-default for 2.6.32.
Pekka
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