Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:38:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3) |
| |
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > This insta-reboots on my netperf benchmarking servers (but works with > > numa=off), so I'll have to wait until I can hook up a serial before > > benchmarking this series. > > There are potential issues with > > 1. The size of per cpu reservation on bootup and the new percpu code that > allows allocations for per cpu areas during bootup. Sometime I wonder if I > should just go back to static allocs for that. > > 2. The topology information provided by the machine for the cache setup. > > 3. My code of course. >
I bisected this to patch 8 but still don't have a bootlog. I'm assuming in the meantime that something is kmallocing DMA memory on this machine prior to kmem_cache_init_late() and get_slab() is returning a NULL pointer.
| |