On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Not a direct explanation for the problem but the memory wastage could > certainly can heretofore undiscovered locking dependencies to be > exposed. Well, not for these traces, no. The trace contains __slab_alloc() in the call chain, which definitely fingers SLUB, not slab, despite the name (slab calls its allocation routines "cache_alloc", while slub calls them "slab_alloc" ;) So the patch looks fine, and I applied it, but as Mel already mentioned, it looks like it won't be making any difference for Alexander. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
