linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906161110481.26093@gentwo.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, mingo@...e.hu, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:

> There aren't too many significant code simplifications AFAIKS.

The code simplification comes from the ability to run the same code during
boot that is also running when the full system is operational. I thought
the intend of this whole exercise was to avoid special casing as much as
possible and reduce the amount of code specifically duplicated for boot
situations?


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