Re: PATCH: two slab-like memory allocators

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Gorman <johngorman2(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: two slab-like memory allocators
Date: 2017-02-27 17:40:25
Message-ID: 20170227174025.uqduky7o4rkt7hvq@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-02-27 18:04:41 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 27/02/17 18:00, Andres Freund wrote:
> >
> >> FWIW I think the ppc64 machines are failing because of unrelated issue
> >> (changes to integer timestamps). We should probably look at 32bit machines
> >> first.
> >
> > Don't think so - termite is ppc64 afaics, and the failure doesn't look
> > integer timestamp related (assert failure is clearly about this, and set
> > of changed commits *only* include slab related commits).
> >
>
> termite is ppc64 but with 4 byte pointer size according to configure so
> it might be related to that perhaps?

Uh, ok. I checked the --configure options, but not the actual configure
output (blame -ENOCOFEE and jetlag). The output makes it fairly likely
that my StandardChunkHeader theory is valid, so I'll work on a patch to
clean that up.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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