linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:37:28 -0400
From:	Daniel Yeisley <dan.yeisley@...sys.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mel@....ul.ie, olaf@...fle.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:21 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Will merge if I get confirmation that this indeed addresses the issue.
> 
> It fixes the problem reported by Daniel:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/25/249
> 
> But what I worry about is breaking setups that have memoryless nodes.
> 
> 			Pekka

The only way I could get the ES7000 to boot with 2.6.24.x was with
memoryless nodes (or numa=off).  The list corruption I saw was due to
CPU 0 not being on node 0.  
I do see problems with memoryless nodes on 2.6.25-rc.  I'll post a patch
for that shortly.

Dan
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