From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:56:26 +1000
> David Miller writes:
>
> > Specifically, you removed the aligning of the size argument given to
> > lmb_add_region() in the lmb allocators, and that is critical when
> > allocating many small chunks, we run out of LM
David Miller writes:
> Specifically, you removed the aligning of the size argument given to
> lmb_add_region() in the lmb allocators, and that is critical when
> allocating many small chunks, we run out of LMB slots otherwise
> and allocations start failing.
Sorry. It's still there in lmb_alloc_
From: Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:35:33 +1000
> Sounds like we need a test suite :)
Maybe :-) Anyways, here is the bug fix I plan to push to
Linus with my sparc64 NUMA changes, unless someone has an
objection:
[LMB]: Fix lmb allocation regression.
Changeset d
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:24 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Paul, I finally got around to testing your changeset on sparc64, it
> breaks things:
>
> commit d9024df02ffe74d723d97d552f86de3b34beb8cc
> Author: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat Apr 12 15:20:59 2008 +1000
>
> [LMB] Res
Paul, I finally got around to testing your changeset on sparc64, it
breaks things:
commit d9024df02ffe74d723d97d552f86de3b34beb8cc
Author: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat Apr 12 15:20:59 2008 +1000
[LMB] Restructure allocation loops to avoid unsigned underflow
...
Specif
