On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:03:39 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just want to report that I've been running SLUB on i386, both in -mm > and with slub-i386-support.patch applied to 2.6.21-git, and observed > no problems with it. I'm anxious that it (or an equivalent) go into > 2.6.22-rc1, i386 being now the last ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT holdout. > > In the frenzy over PowerPC, maybe Linus overlooked that i386 > was still not supporting SLUB; and I fear that once people get > "# CONFIG_SLUB is not set" into their .config, they're less likely to > switch over to testing CONFIG_SLUB=y - I remain anxious that it see > as much testing as possible (but under EXPERIMENTAL for 2.6.22, yes). ok.. > Though when I look at the patchset (copied below), I do wonder why > it puts a quicklist_trim() into i386's cpu_idle() and flush_tlb_mm(): > neither is where I'd expect us to be secretly freeing pages. Ah, > several arches do it in cpu_idle(): how odd, oh well. Christoph, could you please check that this is justified? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
