linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

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Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> I have been looking into "slub" recently to avoid some of the NUMA alien
> cache issues that we were encountering on the regular slab.

Yes that is also our main concern.

> I am having some stability issues with slub on an ia64 NUMA platform and
> didn't have time to dig further. I am hoping to look into it soon
> and share the data/findings with  Christoph.

There is at least one patch on top of 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 already in mm that 
may be necessary for you.
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