Re: [PATCH] Early kmalloc/kfree

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Jul 09 2005 - 20:07:26 EST


On Fri, 9 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think that is a really really bad idea. slab is already complex enough
> and adding scary hacks like this will probably make it collapse
> under its own weight at some point.

Seconded.

Maybe we can solve this by bringing the system up in a limited
configuration and then discover additional capabilities during ACPI
discovery and reconfigure.
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