linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:23:27 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	npiggin@...e.de, sachinp@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390

Hi Mel,

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:18 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Please consider disabling it as an option in the rc3 stage or the like.
> With luck, I'll find a suitable machine in time and see what can be
> done. I just don't like the idea of x86 defaulting to one allocator and
> ppc defaulting to another.

SLQB is _not_ the default allocator in slqb/core and won't be one for
2.6.32 even if we do manage to sneak the allocator to linus.git.

			Pekka

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