Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 05:05:57 EST


On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:53 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Now, if you find it a bit too ugly, feel free to rename smellybits to
> something else and create an accessor function for setting what bits are
> masked out, but I still believe that the basic idea behind my patch is
> saner than yours :-)

It's not the naming I object to but the mechanism because I think is
open for abuse (think smelly driver playing tricks with it). So I do
think my patch is the sanest solution here. ;-)

Nick? Christoph?

Pekka

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