From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767250AbXEBS6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:58:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767248AbXEBS6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:58:08 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:49258 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767247AbXEBS6F (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 14:58:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: "Siddha, Suresh B" cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub In-Reply-To: <20070502185201.GA12097@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501125559.9ab42896.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501133618.93793687.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070502185201.GA12097@linux-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2 May 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > I have been looking into "slub" recently to avoid some of the NUMA alien > cache issues that we were encountering on the regular slab. Yes that is also our main concern. > I am having some stability issues with slub on an ia64 NUMA platform and > didn't have time to dig further. I am hoping to look into it soon > and share the data/findings with Christoph. There is at least one patch on top of 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 already in mm that may be necessary for you.