Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] slub: only preallocate cpus_with_slabs ifoffstack

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > I think if it is up to me, I recommend going the simpler  route that
> > does the allocation in flush_all using GFP_ATOMIC for
> > CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y and sends an IPI to all CPUs if it fails, because
> > it is simpler code and in the end I believe it is also correct.

On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 03:52 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I support that. Pekka?

Sure. I'm OK with that. Someone needs to run some tests to make sure
it's working with low memory conditions when GFP_ATOMIC allocations
fail, though.

			Pekka

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