Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:04 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:02 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Fair enough, but this can be done right down in the synchronous
> > reclaim path in the page allocator. This will catch more cases
> > of code using the page allocator directly, and should be not
> > as hot as the slab allocator.
> 
> So you want to push the local_irq_enable() to the page allocator too? We
> can certainly do that but I think we ought to wait for Andrew to merge
> Mel's patches to mainline first, OK?

Doesn't my patch take care of all the cases in a much more simple way ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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