Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:51 +1000 |
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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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