Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: slub: Default slub_max_order to 0 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Thu, 12 May 2011 11:30:43 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 11:27 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > > > However, the fact remains that this seems to be a slub problem and it > > needs fixing. > > Why are you so fixed on slub in these matters?
Because, as has been hashed out in the thread, changing SLUB to SLAB makes the hang go away.
> Its an key component but > there is a high interaction with other subsystems. There was no recent > change in slub that changed the order of allocations. There were changes > affecting the reclaim logic. Slub has been working just fine with the > existing allocation schemes for a long time.
So suggest an alternative root cause and a test to expose it.
James
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