Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Sep 21 2009 - 14:12:45 EST


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lets just keep SLQB back until the basic issues with memoryless nodes are
> resolved. There does not seem to be an easy way to deal with this. Some
> thought needs to go into how memoryless node handling relates to per cpu
> lists and locking. List handling issues need to be addressed before SLQB.
> can work reliably. The same issues can surface on x86 platforms with weird
> NUMA memory setups.
>
> Or just allow SLQB for !NUMA configurations and merge it now.

I'm holding on to it until the issues are resolved.
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