Re: [patch 2/3] NUMA slab locking fixes - move irq disabling from cahep->spinlock to l3 lock

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Actually, it does not protect much anymore.  Here's a cleanup+comments
> > patch (against current mainline).
> 
> This is getting scary.  Manfred, Christoph, Pekka: have you guys taken a
> close look at what's going on in here?

I looked at his patch and he seems to be right. Most of the kmem_cache 
structure is established at slab creation. Updates are to the debug 
counters and to nodelists[] during node online/offline and to array[] 
during cpu online/offline. The chain mutex is used to protect the 
setting of the tuning parameters. I still need to have a look at the 
details though.


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