linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] slqb: Allow SLQB to be used on PPC

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Message-ID: <20090922093023.GA22441@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:23 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	sachinp@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] slqb: Allow SLQB to be used on PPC

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:10:26PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> SLQB was disabled on PPC as it would stab itself in the face when running
> on machines with CPUs on memoryless nodes. As those configurations should
> now work, allow SLQB to be configured again on PPC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> ---
>  init/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index adc10ab..8f55fde 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ config SLUB
> 
>  config SLQB
>  	bool "SLQB (Queued allocator)"
> -	depends on !PPC && !S390
> +	depends on !S390

You can remove S390 from the list independently from this patch set.
As already mentioned SLQB works again on s390 and whatever caused the
bug I reported a few weeks back is gone.
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