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Message-Id: <1244796291.7172.87.camel@pasglop>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:51 +1000
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
cl@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
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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