linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906151147200.11467@gentwo.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, mingo@...e.hu, npiggin@...e.de,
	yinghai@...nel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> The point here is that the actual debugging hooks do a whole lot more
> than cacheline load + alu op even in the "fastpath" case (if such a
> thing exists for those).

Then it is best to confine additional boot time checking to
those debugging function.

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