linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator

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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:26:50 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, npiggin@...nel.dk,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator

Le lundi 28 mars 2011 à 08:36 +0200, Ingo Molnar a écrit :

> I think we might still be missing the hunk below - or is it now not needed 
> anymore?


Its not needed anymore, once cmpxchg16b implementation works correctly
on !SMP build. (It does now with current linux-2.6 tree)



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