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Message-ID: <0000013d02c15c85-1443abb7-e86b-429c-8452-3f2218a9b38f-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:34:19 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Glauber Costa wrote:

> On 02/22/2013 08:10 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > kmem_cache_node creation runs before PARTIAL and kmem_cache runs
> > after. So there would be 2 kmem_cache_node structures allocated. Ok so
> > that would use cpu slabs and therefore remove pages from the partial list.
> > Pushing that back using the flushing should fix this. But I thought there
> > was already code that went through the cpu slabs to address this?
>
> not in bootstrap(), which is quite primitive. (and should remain so)

Joonsoo Kim had a patch for this. I acked it a while back AFAICR


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