linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 10:01:14 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:44 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> > > > The bootmem allocations of course are required because some hashes may
> > > > need to be larger than MAX_ORDER without using vmalloc.
> > > >
> > > > kmem_cache_init (and mem_init, partially) sets up the kernel memory
> > > > allocators...
> > > 
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:37:59PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > Which comment are you talking about? The "setup kernel memory
> > > allocators" one? Yeah, I should probably move it couple of lines down.
> 
> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Yes, just that one.
> 
> Here's an updated patch that does that. Thanks!

If we're gonna do that, we probably ought to have a comment.

/* These use large bootmem allocations and must precede kmem_cache_init
*/

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