linux-kernel - Re: [Patch](memory hotplug) Make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online to avoid panic(take 3)

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:33:31 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch](memory hotplug) Make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online to avoid panic(take 3)

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> 
> > > So that's slub.  Does slab already have this functionality or are you
> > > not bothering to maintain slab in this area?
> > 
> > Slab brings up a per node structure when the corresponding cpu is brought 
> > up. That was sufficient as long as we did not have any memoryless nodes. 

Right. At least, I don't have any experience of panic with SLAB so far.
(If panic occurred, I already made a patch.).

> > Now we may have to fix some things over there as well.

Though the fix may be better for it, my priority is very low for it
now.



-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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