From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
mingo@elte.hu, cl@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244796291.7172.87.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244793879.30512.19.camel@penberg-laptop>
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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[not found] ` <1244779009.7172.52.camel@pasglop>
[not found] ` <1244780756.7172.58.camel@pasglop>
2009-06-12 5:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 6:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 7:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 7:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 7:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 8:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 8:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 7:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 7:54 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 7:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 8:02 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 8:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 8:20 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 8:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-06-12 8:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 9:13 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 9:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 9:30 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 9:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 9:49 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 8:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 8:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 8:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 8:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 8:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 9:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 9:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 9:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 13:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 13:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 14:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 14:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 14:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 14:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 13:44 ` Christoph Lameter
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