linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:43:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, npiggin@...nel.dk,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Thats strange, alloc_percpu() is supposed to zero the memory already ...

True.

> Are you sure its really this problem of interrupts being disabled ?

Guess so since Ingo and Pekka reported that it fixed the problem.

Tejun: Can you help us with this mystery?
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