On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 16:39 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > I guess DISCONTIGMEM is typically used together with NUMA. Otherwise we > > > would have run into this before. > > > > Which bit of my telling you that six architectures already use it this > > way did you not get? I'm not really interested in reconciling your > > theories with how we currently operate. If you want to require NUMA > > with DISCONTIGMEM, fine, we'll just define SLUB as broken if that's not > > true ... that will fix my boot panic reports. > > Which part of me telling you that you will break lots of other things in > the core kernel dont you get? I get that you tell me this ... however, the systems that, according to you, should be failing to get to boot prompt do, in fact, manage it. > If you were able to get to a command prompt > with SLAB then lets all be happy for as long as it lasts. We can't re-engineer DISCONTIGMEM as a bug fix, so something like this has to be done for stable regardless. James -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>